Refusing to give vent in speech to these undesirable states of mind helps to atrophy them, while every expression of them insures them a deeper hold.
That's why she simply told you that she had no jade; for she couldn't very well have had any desire to give vent to self-praise.
Having had several cups of wine to dispel his distress, he sat at home and tried to seize upon every trifle to give vent to his displeasure.
But, with minds inflamed, they begin first of all togive vent to railings[1087] in words.
But if the hope of deceitful money shall have shone forth, you may believe that ravens turned poets, and magpies poetesses, give vent to strains of Pegaseian nectar.
Hsi Jen suddenly awoke to the fact that he was beginning to give vent to a lot of twaddle, and speedily, pleading fatigue, she paid no further notice to him.
She meant to give vent to her feelings in some way, but the fear again of upsetting her mother compelled her to conceal her tears.
It's lady Feng who makes people her tools to give vent to her spite!
Let us now see what language the Portugueze speak upon that part of the treaty which has incited me to give vent to these feelings, and to assert these truths.
I began to give vent to my feelings, with this view, but I was overpowered by my subject, and could not proceed.
While the angry boatswain was yet rolling his quid within his capacious jaws, racking his brain for the strongest language wherein to give vent to his indignation, his ears were suddenly saluted by a low but clear "Hilloa!
I tried to give vent to my overcharged heart in tears; but the power was denied me, and I sank at once into that stupefaction which you have since remarked in me, and which has been increasing every hour.
To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.
And, with all this, time was found to give vent to discontent.
Meanwhile the anteroom was every moment more crowded, and neither chose to give vent to his anger.
Then he broke out, and it really did him good to give vent to his repressed feelings in an angry speech: "There again--the wisdom of slaves!
Still, the demands he had just read seemed so extravagant, that, for a single instant, a sentiment of pity repressed the burst of indignation to which he felt disposed to give vent.
All the hatred of a thousand or more years was now privileged, by the unwritten law, to give vent.
So, while the mob spirit was still prevalent, they decided to give vent to their jealousy, and called on Smith with a dark purpose.
To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
To give vent to, to suffer to escape; to let out; to pour forth; as, to give vent to anger.
She would have liked to be alone, with no human witness, and to give vent to the delight that was tingling in her veins.
Such men resort to their courts because there they find the means and the excitements to give vent to all their evil passions.
Mr. Glossin having, like a prudent examinator, suffered his witness to give vent to all her surprise and indignation, now began to inquire whether the suspected person had left any property or papers about the inn.
He whistled as he went along, not 'from want of thought,' but to give vent to those buoyant feelings which he had no other mode of expressing.
Geoff's turn to give vent to a grunt of anticipation.
As to his being toothless, that was another matter, though the memory of what had passed between himself and Philip, once again caused Geoff to give vent to a silent chuckle.
The lord-lieutenant addressed the assembly less (he said) for the purpose of enlightening them, than because he wished to give vent to his feelings and to those of his audience, who drowned his voice in deafening cheers.
She was about to give vent to a great many more fears, when Tengelyi's arrival put a stop to the conversation.
She longed to throw herself upon the bed and give vent to her feelings in a flood of tears.
Curly was in a trap, and when he found that this slip of a girl was more than his match he started to give vent to his rage in vile, insolent language.
It would, therefore, be upon Reynolds that he would endeavor to give vent to his rage.
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