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"Deflated" Quotes from Famous Books

... despised majority who is thoroughly convinced of her own superfluousness. Hannah Wrynche, with the conceit so completely taken out of her that she feels, say, like a deflated balloon; Hannah Wrynche, who believed herself born to be a War Correspondent, and has come down to scribbling gossipy paragraphs for a little siege newspaper ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... stretched forward overhead and the lungs are inflated; at exhale the arms are lowered laterally and the lungs deflated; execute slowly; repeat ...

— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss

... in a jiffy," said the driver, and began jacking up the wheel. But, quickly as he stripped off the deflated tire, he was not so quick that Harry failed to see that the blow-out had been caused by a straight cut — not at all the sort of tear produced by a jagged stone or a piece of broken glass. He said nothing of his discovery, ...

— The Boy Scout Aviators • George Durston

... it hard either to judge him or convey the full development of him to the reader. I saw too much of him; my memory is choked with disarranged moods and aspects. Now he is distended with megalomania, now he is deflated, now he is quarrelsome, now impenetrably self-satisfied, but always he is sudden, jerky, fragmentary, energetic, and—in some subtle fundamental way that I find difficult ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... again, and I had to admit that a lot of ingenuity had gone into the manufacture and design of this dome and its contents. The dome itself, when deflated, folded down into an oblong box three feet by one foot by one foot. The lock itself, of course, folded separately, into another box ...

— The Risk Profession • Donald Edwin Westlake

Words linked to "Deflated" : dejected, chapfallen