Judge Colver thereupon essayed, in his longwinded, heavy way, to impart to the new arrival the story they had just heard.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
He would have nothing but longwinded cant without book;" and then his Lordship turned up his eyes, clasped his hands, and began to sing through his nose, in imitation of what he supposed to be Baxter's style of praying "Lord, we are thy people, thy peculiar people, thy dear people."
"The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)"
Thomas Babington Macaulay
All of which was a longwinded way of saying the Grass was overrunning Illinois.
"Greener Than You Think"
Ward Moore