Why hadn't that white-haired gasbag, Mrs. Bilton-Mr. Twist's thoughts were sometimes unjust-joined them sooner?
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
But for an occasional drop and bump of the sailing gasbag upon catch-words of enthusiasm, which are the rhetoric of the merely windy, and a collapse on a poetic line, which too often signalizes the rhetorician's emptiness of his wind, the article was eminent for flight, sweep, and dash, and sailed along far more grandly than ordinary provincial organs for the promoting or seconding of public opinion, that are as little to be compared with the mighty metropolitan as are the fife and bugle boys practising on their instruments round melancholy outskirts of garrison towns with the regimental marching full band under the presidency of its drum-major.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
Confound that old gasbag!
"With Haig on the Somme"
D. H. Parry