"Vent-hole" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Texas form in the middle and took it from her. The pie had the outlines of a star in its centre by way of a vent-hole; the edges were ...
— The Wrong Woman • Charles D. Stewart
... caught a look in his eyes, when he's been down on his hands and knees, staring into some infernal vent-hole—a look that is—well, uncanny, as if he were peering into the bowels of the earth for something quite outside the conceptions of science. You might think that volcano had worked some spell over him, turned his mind. He prattles to it or storms at ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various
... few faint-hearted citizens who had already, since the morning, modified their political opinions, a great figure rises before my eyes—Fontan. I remember that night, already long ago, when a chance glimpse through the vent-hole of his cellar showed me shiploads of bottles of champagne heaped together, and pointed like shells. For some future day he foresaw to-day's victory. He is really clever, he sees clearly and he sees far. He has rescued law and order by ...
— Light • Henri Barbusse
... the effort of swimming; we choked; we fought in the dark water; already we could hardly breathe the dark air above the dark water, the air which escaped, which we could hear escaping through some vent-hole or other. ...
— The Phantom of the Opera • Gaston Leroux
... returned with a fresh roll, beer, and a sausage, greedily devoured by the new prisoner of Chillon, fasting since the night before and hollow with fatigue and emotion. While he ate on his stone bench in the gleam of his vent-hole window, the jailer examined him ...
— Tartarin On The Alps • Alphonse Daudet |
