wind-bag

Example Sentences

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Your enemies say that you are little better than a wind-bag, and I verily believe they are not far wrong.

From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard

And I," he said, "feel like a wind-bag.

From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

It would be foolish to quarrel with that young wind-bag now.

From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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

You were brave with the old princess and the lad her son, but with a knight you are a wind-bag.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk