wind-bag
Example Sentences
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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
He is a man of words, a man of committees, a wind-bag incapable of prompt action, incompetent to lead a Revolution.
From The Gods are Athirst by Jackson, Emilie
They gape round him while he twangs and screeches, the wind-bag!
From Romance by Conrad, Joseph
This unexpected response rather pricks the wind-bag of the man's zeal.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
This babble of cruelty is veriest wind-bag humanity, and, logically, has not a leg to stand upon.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus
