Retailers say solid pre-orders suggest there will be pent-up demand for a capable alternative to the iPad.

But retailers say solid pre-orders suggest there will be pent-up demand for a capable alternative to the iPad.

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Down the spout a torrent gushed, to be pent up in an old, dark tub, and made the slave of the washerwoman.

It was disconcerting, under the circumstances, to be pent in the same room with this heavy-muscled, Indian-like man whom they had robbed.

Disdaining to be pent up within the walls, many of the fighting men encamped outside, and boldly went forward to meet the enemy.

But Caroline's senses assured her that it was a perfect sunny day, and too sultry to be pent up in a wooden box.

Surely the boxes we were pent in never held such company before.

That horrible prison that I am pent in-God ,howI hate it!

The whole peace of the world was pent up painfully in his heart.

Are pent-up pressures for wage increases causing more industrial unrest in the economy?

Thenceforth Edna avoided it as if the plagues of Pharaoh were pent therein.

I recognized that in him, too, intense excitement was pent up.

Silence fell as something that had been pent and suddenly released.

His feelings were pent-in, bound, but at the bottom something rankled.

Alas, for those who are pent in populous cities throughout this glorious time!