My last 'rant' at Friedman was about his lottery-based escape-valve special charity school with high quality education -- for a few lucky students. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Who shall say what revolutions, what tremendous disasters, would not have overtaken Great Britain had it not been for the escape-valve of emigration hither? ❋ Various (N/A)
Besides, a journal is such a good escape-valve for one's feelings! ❋ Maud Wilder Goodwin (N/A)
Now and then, partly as an escape-valve for his overcharged conviction, partly in compassion to the ignorance of women in political economics, he threw off to Margaret divers commentaries on the text, as she passed in and out. ❋ Various (N/A)
This vengeance which Herr Hippe executed upon Furbelow seemed to have operated as a sort of escape-valve, and he found voice. ❋ Various (N/A)
In fact, the choice of the Capital had turned a society, provincially content to run in accustomed grooves, quite topsy-turvy; and, perhaps for want of some other escape-valve under the new pressure, the townspeople grumbled consumedly. ❋ T. C. DeLeon (N/A)
Or a fool, perhaps, for all her sonneting, for there are men who relish a weak headpiece as the chiefest ornament of women, especially when its indeterminate vagaries boast an escape-valve remotely connected with the fine arts. ❋ Marie Manning (N/A)
See here, how handily I can cook one, "he added, striking his stick into a little cavity of a rock, from which, as from an escape-valve, hissed a jet of hot steam, --" see here, I nestle the egg in this little cleft, and it will be done in a twinkling. ❋ Various (N/A)
It hissed and spluttered and steamed like the escape-valve of ❋ Unknown (1910)
Rufus Rastus was hangin 'to one of his arms, splutterin' things about this being a private car, and gettin 'no more notice taken of himself than as if he'd been an escape-valve. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)
The cylinder escape-valve he abolished with a flogging-hammer. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
When Parker, fully awakening in the early dawn, looked out upon the frosty air, his breath was as visibly voluminous as the puff from an escape-valve of the "Swogon." ❋ Holman Day (1900)
They fairly seethed out of his turned and twisted soul, hissing like the escape-valve of an ocean steamer, and his eyes, as they fell upon mine, actually burned me. ❋ John Kendrick Bangs (1892)
Her surcharged spirit was in sore need of an escape-valve. ❋ Charles King (1888)
A furious gust of steam tore from the escape-valve and streamed away overhead. ❋ Charles King (1888)
Saunders became a genial sort of escape-valve for the old man's endless chatter and complaint, doing all in his power to pacify him, though it required no little time and energy. ❋ Unknown (1888)
What a heaven-send he was, if only as an escape-valve for our pent-up sympathies! ❋ Unknown (1885)
"We have kept them pent up all the evening, and that is the escape-valve being raised to avoid a general explosion." ❋ 1841-1930 Pansy (1885)
At every new unfolding of his confidence I had let my own vanity, pride, self-love be more and more flattered, and here at length was getting ready to esteem him less for showing such lack of reserve as to use _me_ as an escape-valve for his pent-up thoughts, when all at once I fancied I saw what he was trying to do. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)
For our own part, when we are down among the machinery of a steamboat in full play, we conduct ourselves very reverently, for we consider it as a very serious neighborhood, and every time the steam whizzes with such red-hot determination from the escape-valve, we start as if some of the spirits were after us. ❋ Kate Sanborn (1878)
