However, from such a misfortune my good genius now delivered me; for after traversing the passage to the end, he at last discovered another, which led by a long flight to the second story, down which he proceeded, venting at every step his determination for vengeance, and his resolution not to desist from the pursuit, if it took the entire night for it.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
It was the eve of the last sad day of such shrunken and faded carnival as is still left to Rome, and there were signs of it in the straggling groups of children in holiday costume, and in here and there a pair of young girls in a cab, safely masked against identification and venting, in the sense of wild escape, the joyous spirits kept in restraint all the rest of the year.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
Always my dear friend's Most affectionate E.B.B. Dear Aunt Nina,-A corner is just the place for eating Christmas pies in, but for venting Christmas wishes, hardly!
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon