wind-bag

Example Sentences

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That old wind-bag Klutchem had been worrying him, I heard, and the colonel sat down on him hard.

From Colonel Carter of Cartersville by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

And that old wind-bag sat near us and watched us—watched me.

From Visionaries by Huneker, James

The self-made man is the funniest wind-bag after all!

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew

And to Dominic Iglesias, just now, it seemed very excellent that posterity should know him for the wind-bag hypocrite he essentially was.

From The Far Horizon by Malet, Lucas

I suspect him to be a wind-bag, but put him under your arm, and the wind in him will bravely play our music, like a pair of Savoyard bagpipes.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)