Crossword-Solution: PENT 4 letters, 76 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

His endless muttering monologue vitiated every effort I made to think out a line of action, and drove me at times, thus pent up and intensified, almost to the verge of craziness.

Far in this den of infamous resort, there was a low-browed, beetling shop, below a pent-house roof, where iron, old rags, bottles, bones, and greasy offal, were bought.

You know that they are being stirred to their profoundest depths; that there are times when they want to rise and wave handkerchiefs and shout their approbation, and times when tears are running down their faces, and it would be a relief to free their pent emotions in sobs or screams; yet you hear not one utterance till the curtain swings together and the closing strains have slowly faded out and died; then the dead rise with one impulse and shake the building with their applause.

The strain upon pent emotion reached its climax when the boy said: “—and as the doctor fetched the board around and Muff Potter fell, Injun Joe jumped with the knife and—” Crash! Quick as lightning the halfbreed sprang for a window, tore his way through all opposers, and was gone! CHAPTER XXIV Tom was a glittering hero once more—the pet of the old, the envy of the young.

For several days he wandered aimlessly, nursing his spite and looking for some weak thing on which to vent his pent anger.