"Outlet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cold-bloodedly the exact data. Such indulgence in the morbid or risque was not, however, limited to the New England colonists; it was entirely too common in other sections; but among the Puritan writers it seemed to offer an outlet for emotions that could not be dissipated ...
— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday
... of course. I've been there. Years and years ago. Long before your time, I'm afraid. How is the place getting on? Better roads, no doubt. And better food, I hope? I was much interested in that little lake—you know? It seemed to have no outlet. We must talk it over. And I like those Bulanga people—fine fellows! You liked them too? I'm glad to hear it. Such a lot of nonsense was talked about their depravity! If you have nothing better to do, come and lunch to-morrow, can you? Villa Khismet. Anybody will show you the way. You, Denis," ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas
... the distribution of such duty, placed Mike in a skiff, by himself, flattering the poor fellow with the credit he would achieve, by rowing a boat to the foot of the lake, without assistance. He might as well have asked Mike to walk to the outlet on the surface of the water! This arrangement proceeded from an innate love of mischief in Joel, who had much of the quiet waggery, blended with many of the bad qualities of the men of his peculiar class. A narrow and conceited selfishness lay at the root ...
— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper
... feet. Here, to the left of the track, and eighty feet above it, is a small and beautiful lake 500 yards long and 400 wide. Its waters, in which the high snowy peaks round it are reflected as in a silver mirror, find an outlet in a short but most precipitous river flowing with tremendous force into the Kuti. Soon after leaving this lake we came upon another small sheet of water, near which were thirteen peculiar piles or columns of stones, each one having been erected by the first Tibetan ...
— In the Forbidden Land • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... Shrill and loud "Stand, who are ye in armour dight, and why? What make ye there?" cries Volscens from the crowd, "And whither wend ye?" Naught the youths reply, But swiftly to the bordering forest fly, And trust to darkness. Then around each way The horsemen ride, all outlet to deny; Circling, like huntsmen, closely as they may, They watch the well-known turns, and wait ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
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