And Peronella, looking in at the vent-hole, where the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron] Reference

The chaunter had seven finger-holes and a vent-hole in front, and a thumb-hole at the back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The pie had the outlines of a star in its centre by way of a vent-hole; the edges were nicely crimped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Woman] Reference

When ex-huzbin#2 an I started werkin awn teh trayler, hiz fut gotted stuk inna vent-hole dat wuz inna floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ugh. If you didn’t - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

With a gentleness that was surprising in such a huge man, and with a tenacity Sharpe had seen before in the Irishman, Harper was using a narrow-bladed awl to dig the iron spike, scrap by bright scrap, out of the vent-hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Siege]

The vent-hole was not so important to stop, so I let it alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures] Reference

I know not what vent-hole daylight habitually illumined his soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

Boiling as they gather, the waters rise till they fill the long vent-hole to the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the National Parks] Reference

He tied a lantern to a rope and lowered it down what looked like an old vent-hole in the lava.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ivory Trail] Reference

It was big enough to hold eight or ten men, and had a door at the side, and a vent-hole at top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

As a vent-hole for the envy, hatred and uncharitableness of mankind, politics cannot be overestimated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

If it had not been for a small vent-hole far away up in a corner, we should have been suffocated, maybe.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Rocky Mountains] Reference

While he ate on his stone bench in the gleam of his vent-hole window, the jailer examined him with a good-natured eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tartarin On The Alps] Reference

Then it burst forth again with redoubled fury, checked only now and then by the unavoidable stuffing of the vent-hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure] Reference

They covered it with Oahu mats, for a carpet; stopped up the vent-hole in bad weather, and made it their head-quarters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

They covered the floor with Oahu mats for a carpet, stopped up the vent-hole in bad weather, and made it their head-quarters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

This obscure vent-hole allows one to make out some big objects ranged along the corridor; they are low stretchers, like coffins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference

A fourth companion in captivity was unfortunately too large to pass through the vent-hole of the prison, and was shot by the English.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air] Reference

It was big enough to hold six or eight men-that is, it was as large as a ship's forecastle; had a door at the side, and a vent-hole at top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative] Reference

This gleam from the sinister vent-hole dazzled them; this puff of the sombre vapour inebriated them, and they were lost, and they were rich.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference

It was big enough to hold six or eight men—that is, it was as large as a ship’s forecastle; had a door at the side, and a vent-hole at top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XVIII. Easter Sunday-“Sail Ho!”-Whales-San Juan-Romance of Hide-Droghing-San Diego Again] Reference

It was big enough to hold six or eight men -- that is, it was as large as a ship's forecastle; had a door at the side, and a vent-hole at top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

Going along a rocky cliff, we passed a strange volcanic vent-hole with a pyramid of granite of large proportions on each side of its aperture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across Unknown South America] Reference

The interval till then will depend upon the amount of water which reaches the deep pocket, the size of the pocket, and the length and shape of the vent-hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the National Parks] Reference

One would have thought that here gold was being made, not sought -- that this was a region of volcanic hot springs where every fissure and vent-hole spouted steam.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Winds of Chance] Reference

This, it seems, was necessary, or so I understood, lest the expanding gases, following the line of least resistance, should blow back, as it were, through the vent-hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Sheba's Ring] Reference

I exclaimed, just then recollecting that to get liquor out of a cask two holes are necessary, the one to serve as a vent-hole to let in the air and the other to let out the liquid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures] Reference

As the simplest method of ascertaining this, I inserted a straw at the vent-hole, and presently announced that in all my life I had never enjoyed a more delicious draught of canary sack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swiss Family Robinson] Reference

One is set thinking in the presence of this layer of clay, which protects the fresh provisions, and this vent-hole stopped with a truss of straw, which admits the air freely, while defending the entrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference

Something was wrong with the vent-hole of the piece, and one of the gunners asked what business you had with their language; and you said, 'I am a minister of the Lord,' and the fellow gave it back very patly, 'I ain't carin' ef you was a minister of state! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Guidon 1911] Reference

A small vent-hole far away up in a corner, we should have been suffocated, maybe.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Rocky Mountains A Tale of Adventure] Reference

There was a vent-hole there, you can see the mark of the bar of iron that was over the hole before it disappeared. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Fire: the story of a squad] Reference

The sky is but a vent-hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

At its roots was the vent-hole of the cave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Invisible Links] Reference