| 1. | "O son" said he, "whoever of this throng One instant stops, lies then a hundred years, No fan to ventilate him, when the fire Smites sorest. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 2. | The thing was well ventilated for me. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | A vile wind that has no doubt blown ere this through prison corridors and cells, and wards of hospitals, and ventilated them, and now comes blowing hither as innocent as fleeces. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | Whoever embarked on a policy of the sort, he said, and ventilated the matter thoroughly would confer a lasting boon on everybody concerned. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |