"Inflate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... won't unharness," he said calmly. He hung the robe over the line that was stretched to hang robes over and Lucinda gasped for wind with which to inflate ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... English Government has placed a transport at my disposal, and three or four vessels are to cruise off the western coast of Africa, about the presumed period of my arrival. In three months, at most, I shall be at Zanzibar, where I will inflate my balloon, and from that point ...
— Five Weeks in a Balloon • Jules Verne
... not know," said he, "any thing that will bring the Britons hither, more certainly than what brought yourselves—that is Pride: if she ever plant her pole within them and inflate them, there is no reason to fear that they will stoop to lift the cross, or go through the narrow gate. I will go," said he, "with my daughter Pride, and will cause the Welsh, by gazing on the magnificence of the English, and the ...
— The Sleeping Bard - or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell • Ellis Wynne
... from Ivan Nikiforovitch's countenance whether he is pleased or angry; even if he is rejoiced at anything, he will not show it. Ivan Ivanovitch is of a rather timid character: Ivan Nikiforovitch, on the contrary, has, as the saying is, such full folds in his trousers that if you were to inflate them you might put the courtyard, with its storehouses and buildings, ...
— Taras Bulba and Other Tales • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... you inflate yourself so over your prospectus, you'll have no wind left when you come to speak. Be as wildly original as you please, but ...
— Mr. Waddington of Wyck • May Sinclair
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