wind-bag

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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

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.

Talk of Fuseli and his wind-bag, there is real vivid imagination enough in this to make a whole academy of Fuselis.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham

The new prefect sent down from Paris turned out to be a wind-bag.

From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by Hurlbert, William Henry

Another wind-bag encircling the bottom of the air-chamber serves as a rudder, and lateral fins or wings give stability to the balloon about its longer axis.

From Sounding the Ocean of Air by Rotch, A. Lawrence