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

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

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

For thy first, thou'rt thyself; for the second, a rogue; and for the third, a wind-bag.

From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Farnol, Jeffery

I suspect him to be a wind-bag, but put him under your arm, and the wind in him will bravely play our music, like a pair of Savoyard bagpipes.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)