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

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

I may be an old maid, and you may be an old wind-bag, but I've got eyes in my head.

From The Faith Healer A Play in Three Acts by Moody, William Vaughn

The book had great success, but of what Mr. Carlyle calls the "wind-bag" nature.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

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