find outlet

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During the War the safest place in Europe was Spain, but Trotsky is physically no coward, and it was only to find outlet for his pacifism that he went to Spain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even the muse of tragedy is self-possessed in modern days; good breeding has conquered even the fierce impulse of passion to find outlet in words.

From The Philistines by Bates, Arlo

Before a sociological problem, his attitude is not that of the patient thinker, but of the hysterical prophet, whose emotions find outlet in declamatory denunciation.

From Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series by Macpherson, Hector Carsewell

But the longing to find outlet in words came upon me, and I felt as though I had something to say and was able to say it.

From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Besant, Annie Wood

There was no human being to whom he could communicate his thoughts, yet the pent-up anguish must find outlet somehow, lest the heart-strings should snap beneath the strain.

From Tales of the Ridings by Vaughan, C.