The strain upon pent emotion reached its climax when the boy said:

He showed for a moment his pent emotion, then strove with and conquered it.

A woman gave a strangled little sob of pent emotion.

And then, subdued, but filled with pent emotion, a voice cried: "Tom!"

There was a little break in the older man's voice, the suggestion of pent emotion.

Then Mary's pent emotion issued in a laugh.

Tara's breast was heaving with her pent emotion.

It seemed to him that she was on the verge of unconsciousness, that the pent emotion was going to prove too much for her.

She covered her face with her hands and released her pent emotions.

Tarzan's broad chest rose and fell to the force of his pent emotions.

Skipper Simms kept the men busy painting and holystoning as a vent for their pent emotions.

He was crowding into a few precious minutes all the pent emotions of his dearest dreams.

And all my pent emotions may be guessed

The pent emotions again flowed, and Eve once more wept in her father's arms, a species of holy joy mingling with her tears.