"Let out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said it to mine. You may trust me, Stephen. I would rather let out my life-blood than any secret which would ...
— One Snowy Night - Long ago at Oxford • Emily Sarah Holt
... the glass, let out a roar. "It's 'uman's, me lad, 'uman bein's it is, and if it's no one but the bloody, bloomin' 'eathen, I'll ...
— Panther Eye • Roy J. Snell
... onions, they danced about the table, and exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies, while he (not proud, although his collar nearly choked him) blew the fire, until the potatoes, bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan-lid to be let out and peeled. ...
— De La Salle Fifth Reader • Brothers of the Christian Schools
... locked up in this house; two horses were standing there in a hut of the Fakir's; two greyhounds were tied up there; two simurgs were imprisoned, and two tigers also stood there. So the King's son let all the creatures go, and took them out of the house, and they all returned thanks to God. Next he let out all the men who were in prison. He took away with him the two horses, and he took away the two tigers, and he took away the two hounds, and he took away the two simurgs, and with them he ...
— Indian Fairy Tales • Collected by Joseph Jacobs
... saw the large crescent of shipping already writhing with the approaching terror; one ship passing behind another, another coming round from broadside to end on, steamships whistling and giving off volumes of steam, sails being let out, launches rushing hither and thither. He was so fascinated by this and by the creeping danger away to the left that he had no eyes for anything seaward. And then a swift movement of the steamboat (she had suddenly come round ...
— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells
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