wind-bag

Example Sentences

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By my soul, Nick, you are the maddest wind-bag I have ever heard.

From The King's Achievement by Benson, Robert Hugh

A Norwegian witch once boasted of sinking a vessel by opening a wind-bag she possessed.

From A History of Nursery Rhymes by Green, Percy B.

Is the inscription incomplete if we do not chisel beneath it, "A wind-bag pricked by Death"?

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by Curtis, George William

So long as men had nothing but a single "wind-bag" of skin or cloth the best wind was a "lubber's wind," that is, a wind from straight behind.

From Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas by Wood, William Charles Henry

He is a man of words, a man of committees, a wind-bag incapable of prompt action, incompetent to lead a Revolution.

From The Gods are Athirst by Jackson, Emilie