Palpitating

Examples

• The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Girl number twenty stopped then, palpitating, and made him a curtsey. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Everybody was satisfied; and she was left to the tremors of a most palpitating heart, while the others prepared to begin. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It seemed to shoot out arms of fire like a cuttle-fish, like a luminous polyp, palpitating strongly before her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He had her in his power, as if she were a palpitating bird, a fluttering, flushing, bewildered creature. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There the boy remained, with a palpitating heart, for half an hour. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She was palpitating and formless within the flux of the ghost life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• With a fast palpitating heart, Bella grasped him by the arm. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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