wind-bag

Example Sentences

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The first two, I was glad to find, were hardly necessary, as anything in the shape of the British, or, worse still, the Irish wind-bag, did not appear to exist amongst the members.

From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Elliot, Robert H. (Robert Henry)

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

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

A mere wind-bag, that's what he is, with a lot of nonsensical ideas about his own importance.

From Virginia by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson