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Updated: July 19, 2025
The boy shook his head and buried it deeper in the pillow. "Bad as that?" commented Selwyn quietly. "Well, what of it? I'm standing by, I tell you. . . . That's right" as Gerald broke down, his body quivering under the spasm of soundless grief "that's the safety-valve working. Good business. Take your time."
I wonder at the patience of the congregation in listening to it. However they had a doxology after the sermon, sung to the tune of 'Old Hundred; everybody joined in and let off their feelings in that way. It acted as a sort of safety-valve." "There is nothing in worship so inspiring as congregational singing," said Aunt Faith, "and I always wonder why it is not general in our churches."
As often as the daring driver eased off for a down grade I could hear the hiss of steam through the safety-valve above the back of the black flier, and I could feel the flanges against the ball of the rail, and the little tell-tale semi-quaver of the car.
"The Commission intends to furnish a clearinghouse to hear complaints of grievances, of both sides, and act as a mediator or safety-valve." In the report to the Governor appear Carl's first writings on the I.W.W. "Of this entire labor force at the ranch, it appears that some 100 had been I.W.W. 'card men, or had had affiliations with that organization.
His immense wealth, his unrivalled social knowledge, his clear vigorous intellect, the severe simplicity of his manners, frank, but neither claiming nor brooking familiarity, and his devotion to field sports, which was the safety-valve of his energy, were all circumstances and qualities which the English appreciate and admire; and it may be fairly said of Sidonia that few men were more popular, and none less understood.
By the simple process of removing the handle, taking out the dasher, and unshipping the legs the work, as you perceive, of but a moment the process of transformation is complete. As to the trifling orifice that the removal of the handle leaves in the lid, it becomes, when the wash-boiler side of this Protean vessel is uppermost, a positive benefit. It is an effective safety-valve.
He unships the helm; he flings compass and sextant overboard; he fires up the furnaces, and screws down the safety-valve, and says, 'Go ahead! And what will be the end of that, think you? Either an explosion or a crash upon a reef; and you may take your choice of which is the better kind of death to be blown up or to go down.
A moderate "looseness of the bowels," then, is often a safety-valve, and you may, with as much propriety, close the safety-valve of a steam engine, as stop a moderate "looseness of the bowels!"
The boiler was a large one, and was built partly into, partly out of the engine-house. That is to say, while the furnace-door, the gauges, and the safety-valve were inside, the main portion of the boiler was outside the walls. The blow-off cock was two inches in diameter, and the nozzle of the hose an inch and a half.
'Good heavens! exclaimed the archdeacon, as he placed his foot on the gravel walk of the close, and raising his hat with one hand, passed the other somewhat violently over his now grizzled locks; smoke issued from the uplifted beaver as it were a cloud of wrath, and the safety-valve of his anger opened, and emitted a visible steam, preventing positive explosion and probably apoplexy.
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