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  • At other times, his long-pent bitterness found voice in passionate outbursts; for he had rubbed the world the wrong way and did not like the feel of it.

    WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER 2010

  • An'desha stared at him for a moment, and then, unexpectedly, began weeping again; hoarse, racking sobs of long-pent and terrible grief.

    Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

  • I tried to pull it the next morning to release that long-pent orgasm, but the slightest touch felt like someone was brushing jalapeno sauce across my skin.

    Have It Your Way shadesong 2004

  • "Do you not understand that many long-pent resentments can be released by this sort of thing?"

    Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

  • For some time, he simply held her, letting her long-pent grief wear itself out, rocking her a little, and stroking her hair and the back of her neck.

    The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994

  • An'desha stared at him for a moment, and then, unexpectedly, began weeping again; hoarse, racking sobs of long-pent and terrible grief.

    Winds Of Fury Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • He suspected that she had somehow confused him with that long-dead confidant of hers called "Marcus," for he was quite sure she would never have wanted him to know the things she had poured out to him in her bewilderment and long-pent grief.

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Her long-pent jealousy had broken forth at last, and the words raced from her lips.

    The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler

  • A flood of long-pent endearments trembled on his lips.

    Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper

  • But to-night they only loosed the tension of long-pent passion, and selfish thoughts of neglect.

    Dawn Harriet A. Adams

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