wind-bag

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

You were brave with the old princess and the lad her son, but with a knight you are a wind-bag.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

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