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«Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him»
«Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent / A day's march nearer home.»
«When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.»
«I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it.»
Author: Mark David Chapman | Keywords: pent-up, pent, the Pent
«UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.His understanding was so keen That all things which he'd felt, heard, seen, He could interpret without fail If he was in or out of jail. He wrote at Inspiration's call Deep disquisitions on them all, Then, pent at last in an asylum, Performed the service to compile 'em. So great a writer, all men swore, They never had not read before. --Jorrock Wormley»
«DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave- driver.As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it. --Barlow S. Vode»
«The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.»
«A cat pent up becomes a lion»
Author: Proverb | About: Animals | Keywords: lion, pent-up, pent, the Pent