Pent

Examples

• Close pent-up guilt, Raise your concealing continents, and ask These dreadful summoners grace! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But this time his feelings were all pent in his heart: I was not worthy to hear them uttered. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His complexion was of a gipsy darkness; his fleshless cheeks had fallen into deep hollows, over which the bone projected like a pent-house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• With his very ears a bright purple shot with crimson, he pent up his indignation, however, and said: 'You'd like to keep her here for a time? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• For several days he wandered aimlessly, nursing his spite and looking for some weak thing on which to vent his pent anger. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I took up the trade just to make a living; if 'tan't right, I calculated to 'pent on 't in time, ye know. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Lord bless you, Mas'r, I couldn't help it now, said Sam, giving way to the long pent-up delight of his soul. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Into her he poured all his pent-up darkness and corrosive death, and he was whole again. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was a massive, magnificent stallion, rigid with pent-up power. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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