The whole peace of the world was pent up painfully in his heart.
All the pent loneliness of the past weeks and months burst forth in a stinging whip of retort.
The raw animal crouching within him is like the earthquake monster pent in the crust of the earth.
"Tonight, Mother," continued Walter, "he had an awful cold and coughed just like our Harry did last year," and the long pent up tears flowed from the child's eyes.
I am sure you cannot long be content to pass your leisure in solitude, and to devote your working hours to a monotonous labour wholly void of stimulus: any more than I can be content," he added, with emphasis, "to live here buried in morass, pent in with mountains--my nature, that God gave me, contravened; my faculties, heaven-bestowed, paralysed--made useless.