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Example sentences for "beating heart"

  • She waited with a beating heart and a pale face for his next words.

  • Laurel prepared for her drive with Mr. Le Roy with a beating heart.

  • He examined me; I did my best to answer well, and waited for his verdict with a beating heart.

  • I did go on; every step showed me I had not been deceived; I recognized the hedges, the trees, with a beating heart.

  • I entered it with a beating heart, thinking to make my peace with Cornelius.

  • She turned her father's chair, and pushed aside the table to make an easy way for him, and then stood with a beating heart to see him enter and look round for the first time.

  • For some moments Fan stood hesitating, then without removing her hat, and with a wildly-beating heart, moved to the door.

  • She heard his steps bounding up the stairs, and stood trembling with excitement, her hand pressed to her wildly-beating heart.

  • The prince stood behind his curtain with a loudly-beating heart, breathless from anxiety; they came nearer; she led the way to the little lake whose smooth and frozen surface shone like a mirror.

  • The page left the room, and Amelia gazed after him breathlessly, and with a loudly-beating heart.

  • With a beating heart he knocked at the door;--and in less than a minute he was conducted to the drawing-room, where Perdita was waiting to receive him.

  • Connor advanced towards her with a beating heart.

  • She sat down, therefore, with a beating heart and a cheek already pale with apprehension.

  • With a beating heart, he replaced the little tool in its case and pulled the ring of the padlock out of the hasp.

  • He held out a filthy hand, while Peggy, with a beating heart, fell back toward the car.

  • She stooped down in the road and picked up the bundle and then, with a beating heart, she opened it.

  • A vast fortune, indeed,' I said, with a beating heart at this confirmation of my hopes.

  • It was with a beating heart I prepared to read what he had written.

  • Leonard witnessed his ascent with a beating heart, and could scarcely repress a feeling of envy when he saw him pass through the window, and knew that he would soon be in the presence of Amabel.

  • With a beating heart, Leonard then followed the old woman to Nizza's chamber.

  • Patience hastened with a beating heart to the door, expecting to learn some tidings of Blaize, and opening it, admitted a man wrapped in a large cloak and having a broad-leaved hat pulled over his brows.

  • Leonard followed them at a little distance, and with a beating heart.

  • Nitetis deigned him not a word in reply, but followed, with a beating heart, to the queen's apartment.

  • Summoning all his strength he rushed down to the Nile, flung the bag in, and then with a beating heart, but as he imagined without the slightest evidence of guilt, remained standing on the shore.

  • She went upstairs with a fast-beating heart.

  • In a few minutes afterwards I myself ascended with a beating heart.

  • We paused there a moment, while I made my attendants shake the dust from their cloaks, and wipe the barouche; and now, with a beating heart, I found myself at her door.

  • On retiring for the night to my chamber, I found this note on my toilette, and read it with a beating heart.

  • She had made a little pile of gifts for her friend, though uncertain that he would turn up, and she listened for his ring with a beating heart.

  • But in a few minutes she heard, with a beating heart, the same clatter of wheels that had died away in the distance coming behind her, and drawing nearer and nearer.

  • In her boudoir, with a beating heart, she untied the string and looked through the papers.

  • Then with a stately bow, whose imperious distance inflamed him more than ever, and without once looking back she took her way home, all agitated inwardly and with fast beating heart.

  • Then, seeing that she was alone, she went her way with settled purpose; with flashing eyes and glowing cheeks--and a beating heart.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beating heart" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beating constantly; beating heart; beating well; feet above the water; feet from; first mate; first necessary; foreign commerce; good hands; half knots; human need; large space; literary form; operative stores; other observers; other regions; perceive that; perhaps more; poor gentleman; possessive pronoun; reached home; rest assured; standing still; then fill