Beats
[biːts]
Examples
- Either beats or cringes, said Wemmick, not at all addressing himself to me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He beats me and I rail at him: O worthy satisfaction! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How fast your heart beats, ma'am! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Beats the chimbley-pots, Sir,' replied Mr. Weller, touching his hat. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Every one keeps at a distance, and dreads that storm, which beats upon me from every side. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Mademoiselle complies, saying in a concentrated voice while that something in her cheek beats fast and hard, You are a devil. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It's altogether out of all your beats, and is well away from the usual heap of streets great and small. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But when one man kills, wounds, beats, or defames another, though he to whom the injury is done suffers, he who does it receives no benefit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Well, you take it along--but I swear it beats my time, though--and see if you can't find out what in the very nation he wants with that lamp. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Buy one of another man's--any great professor who beats me hollow--and the chances are that the more you give him, the more he'll impose upon you. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- That's the question that beats in my brain like a hammer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Feel my heart, how it beats, dear! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He did not want his customers to count the heart-beats of the engine in the flicker of the lamp. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was taken at his word, and there he still beats, but never succeeds in rounding the point. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the hour came and passed--it moved on feverishly, measured by her impatient heart-beats. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Typist: Marvin