pentup

But, he further added, it is mayhap to relieve the pentup feelings that in common oppress them for I have more than once observed that birds of a feather laugh together.

Ulysses 2003

He reared, pranced, kicked, savaged the air — not an item of all his pentup wickedness being undemonstrated.

My Tropic Isle 2003

Her very soul is in her eyes and she would give worlds to be in the privacy of her own familiar chamber where, giving way to tears, she could have a good cry and relieve her pentup feelingsthough not too much because she knew how to cry nicely before the mirror.

Ulysses 2003

Bigger crowd than usual, I think the ice storm caused a lot of pentup desire to be out.

Amelie badger 2002

The tears began spilling out of her eyes, and the pentup emotion of the day erupted, and she shuddered with great sobs.

Mosaic Jeri Taylor 1996

"This response confirms our confidence that there is an enormous pentup demand by South Africans from all walks of life for the right to broadcast in their own languages, and among their own communities," he said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

There is clearly a pentup demand for more effective government action in such areas as drug abuse, education, and reform of the economic infrastructure.

The View From Washington 1989

Both struggled for apt expression of their pentup emotions.

Terry A Tale of the Hill People Charles Goff Thomson

In that case, his astonishing behavior at the fete, which had caused her so much pain, and which she had endeavored to excuse in her own mind as the untutored outbreak of his pentup love, that fiery caress, was only the insulting manifestation of a brutal caprice?

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

There was something in it of the volcanic, as if at the bursting forth of some pentup force of primitive nature.

Mark Twain Archibald Henderson 1920