wind-bag

Example Sentences

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Love is a wind-bag, filled with a gusty wind from Heaven.

From A Christmas Garland by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

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

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

Soon afterwards she discovers that he is not a chivalrous wind-bag, but a Man, whereupon she shatters his pedestal, and abandons herself to misery amidst the ruins.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. by Various

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

From The King's Achievement by Benson, Robert Hugh