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    1. the apple of your eye still makes your heart palpitate,


    2. The air of the sleeping-chamber seemed to palpitate with the hopeless passion of the girls


    3. Every thought that was devoted to it was an extreme anguish, and every word that I spoke in allusion to it caused my lips to quiver, and my heart to palpitate


    1. 103 And Jacob heard all the words of his sons, and his heart palpitated at their words, for he could not believe them until he saw all that Joseph had given them and what he had sent him, and all the signs which Joseph had spoken to them


    2. 103 And Jacob heard all the words of his sons and his heart palpitated at their words for he could not believe them until he saw all that Joseph had given them and what he had sent him and all the signs which Joseph had spoken to them


    3. My heart palpitated and my temples throbbed as the unsolved mystery of that infernal letter weighed down upon me again


    4. A giddiness seemed to her to detach itself from this mass of existence, and her heart swelled as if the hundred and twenty thousand souls that palpitated there had all at once sent into it the vapour of the passions she fancied theirs


    5. But whilst she wrote it was another man she saw, a phantom fashioned out of her most ardent memories, of her finest reading, her strongest lusts, and at last he became so real, so tangible, that she palpitated wondering, without, however, the power to imagine him clearly, so lost was he, like a god, beneath the abundance of his attributes


    6. palpitated; still I was afraid hastily to enquire; and I waited a long half hour, before I ventured to ask the boy whether his master was in the counting-house?


    7. more inflamed that center of all my senses: my heart palpitated, as if it


    8. "Oh, how our hearts palpitated; for it did, indeed, seem to be a ring which was placed there


    9. Ne’er had all my Senses been more inflam’d! These Nymphs were as skill’d at the Business of spreading Fire as an invading Army—but could they put it out? My Heart palpitated in my Breast, my Breath came short and in the most rapid Gasps, and my Thighs strove to close around that Head whose Tongue provok’d ’em to this Frenzy


    10. Her pallor had become whiteness; her cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they remained closed and drooping

    11. Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those dumb houses which seemed dead and in which no human movement palpitated, enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, isolated, armed, determined, and tranquil


    1. On the other hand, the “botillo”, strong and delicious “berciano” dish, palpitates in the world of the arts, for it has inspired and continues to inspire the artist


    2. The atmosphere about the Stock Exchange fairly palpitates with suspicion and subterfuge


    1. He closed his eyes and waited for his heart to stop palpitating


    2. Edgier, she reasoned, taking note of her shaky hands and palpitating heart


    3. He could feel the heat of the staring crowd and he was now aware of his palpitating heart


    4. For example, you see the dishonest seller with palpitating heart when selling


    5. Mary’s heart was palpitating terribly


    6. My heart was already palpitating to my hearing


    7. So, who does teach the child these questions or who does direct them to him? No doubt, there is a hidden voice that is palpitating in the depth of his heart from time to time


    8. I had given the strictest private instructions; and dropping speechless into the dinghy, a palpitating mixture of heat, anxiety, and rapture, was rowed as fast as two strong men could row me to the brig and the waiting skipper


    9. But there were many moments when with her guard low, it bubbled to the surface and manifested itself in throbbing headaches and a palpitating heart, shivering and silent racking sobs, her face buried in cloth to mute the acknowledged fear


    10. Ayman was driving recklessly, palpitating and frustrated, he

    11. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes


    12. She escaped, smiling, palpitating, undressed


    13. Slowly, with the tips of his fingers, palpitating, he lifted her veil


    14. could hardly stir, or raise myself, but lay palpitating, till the ferment of


    15. They sat with flushed faces, shining eyes and palpitating hearts, looking hungrily at the dear man as he proceeded:


    16. Oh, great city, it is in thy palpitating bosom that I have found that which I sought; like a patient miner, I have dug deep into thy very entrails to root out evil thence


    17. I was now so bruised, so battered, so spent with this overmatch, that I could hardly stir, or raise myself, but lay palpitating, till the ferment of my senses subsiding by degrees, and the hour striking at which I was obliged to dispatch my young man, I tenderly advised him of the necessity there was for


    18. I still lay all discomposed in bleeding ruin, palpitating, speechless, unable to get off, and frightened, and fluttering like a poor wounded partridge, and ready to faint away again at the sense of what had befallen me


    19. I sat palpitating and hardly daring to breathe


    20. It was strikingly visible as he turned towards us after entering the study, and seemed the more singular from the contrast with the hard, steady, grey eyes which looked out from underneath those palpitating brows

    21. Stevens for your money! Never set foot in Thorpe Place again!" Consumed with curiosity, I could not help following the woman, and found her round the corner leaning against the wall and palpitating like a frightened rabbit


    22. He fastened his eyes upon the hollow of her white throat, which had the invincible charm of things young, palpitating, delicate, and alive


    23. The sand-banks far out were spotted with uncouth crawling forms, huge turtles, strange saurians, and one great flat creature like a writhing, palpitating mat of black greasy leather, which flopped its


    24. “But that’ll be something to worry about after I’m married,” she thought, tossing the It was impossible to feel anything but palpitating joy in this warm sun, in this spring, with the chimneys of Twelve Oaks just beginning to show on the hill across the river


    25. After wearing and wasting her palpitating heart with every engine of regret that lonely inexperience could devise, common sense had illuminated her


    26. Here Tess flung herself down upon the rustling undergrowth of spear-grass, as upon a bed, and remained crouching in palpitating misery broken by momentary shoots of joy, which her fears about the ending could not altogether suppress


    27. She was surprised and annoyed to find that her heart was palpitating violently, and that it was quite useless to try after a recovery of her former animation


    28. She was a part of that involuntary, palpitating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining


    29. Even if we loved some one else better than—than those we were married to, it would be no use"—poor Dorothea, in her palpitating anxiety, could only seize her language brokenly—"I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love


    30. She had no suspicion that the love vanished from her life was there, palpitating by her side, beneath that coarse holland shirt, in that youthful heart open to the emanations of her beauty

    31. His waxen hue became greenish-yellow by the contrast of his burning eyes, and the red scar on the forehead showed on the pallid skin like a palpitating wound


    32. He closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry and the rattling of carriage a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, the French were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode forward beside Schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since childhood


    33. Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering there, and life was palpitating there


    34. Everybody was satisfied; and she was left to the tremors of a most palpitating heart, while the others prepared to begin


    35. He stopped to listen with a palpitating heart


    36. I understood that I was the cause of the fact that she, who had been a moving, living, palpitating being, had now become motionless and cold, and that there was no way of repairing this thing


    37. He closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, the French were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode forward beside Schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since childhood


    38. We speak of a death-grip, but here is a death and life grip—death to the victim whose palpitating body furnishes life to its destroyer


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    Synonyms for "palpitate"

    flutter palpitate quake quiver beat pound throb thump vibrate

    "palpitate" definitions

    cause to throb or beat rapidly


    shake with fast, tremulous movements


    beat rapidly