The storm had broken, and high in the quivering heavens the moon shone with a wild, palpitant glory.
Though palpitant over Larry's fate, she had the satisfaction of having achieved with Larry's grandmother what she had set forth to achieve.
Within she was palpitant with the strain and suspense of it all; but on Barney she held cool, appraising eyes.
To dream in the delirium of a moment that one is the soul of creation and the sound sent forth by the palpitant earth.
When he came up the steps to the porch where she waited, blushing and palpitant but withal feeling a sense of importance, he greeted her jovially.
More palpitant by the second, she replaced her magazines and got into her wraps.
Of course it was all terribly silly--and yet-- Then there followed a palpitant moment while she held her breath and shut her eyes.
Straight across from him, couched in the mosses of a soggy old log, a big green bullfrog, with palpitant throat and batting eyes, lifted his head and bellowed in answer.
Fortunately the incandescent light of the aurora increased--now and then a ribbon of light, palpitant with every color of the rainbow, was flung across the sky.
No sounds of forest life challenged the vast silence of the damp and cheerless vault of green, no song of bird or shrill thrumming of insects that makes the tropical forest a palpitant discordance during the hot hours of the day.
He observed his hostess attentively from under his shaggy brows, and noted a subtle change which had transformed her from the listless woman he had known into a being who, for the moment, seemed palpitant with the forces of life.
XXVI Alcee Arobin wrote Edna an elaborate note of apology, palpitant with sincerity.
As he did so, his whole being became palpitant with terror, for staring at him out of the darkness he perceived a small orb-like something whose hue was that of an emerald in combustion.
The girls watched and waited in palpitant eagerness.
The palpitant desire of all nature in the spring thrilled through his heart.
With nose close to the thatched wall Korak sniffed eagerly about the structure--tense and palpitant as a hunting hound.
The lad was all excitement; palpitant with eagerness to be off in pursuit.
There, within hearing of the soldiers, the dialogue that followed was low-toned, and it was swift and palpitant with repressed emotion.
Close packed behind Fracasse's company was a seemingly limitless mass of soldiery, palpitant with their short breaths, a steamy, sickening odor rising from their water-soaked clothes.
And through the swaying, palpitant vision, as through a fairy mirage, he stared at the real woman, sitting there and talking of literature and art.
Sensation usurped reason, and he was quivering and palpitant with emotions he had never known, drifting deliciously on a sea of sensibility where feeling itself was exalted and spiritualized and carried beyond the summits of life.
It soared upward with a swift rush, till it reached its topmost note, where it persisted, palpitant and tense, and then slowly died away.
He shot down like an arrow, in a long palpitant line, and then, two hundred yards from the sward, opened his wings in an explosion of fluffy whiteness.
This was followed by a palpitant hugging, from the folds of which emerged vague, bubbling sounds.
He conceives the delusion that beneath the bark lives a wood nymph, and he would feel with his hands the palpitant flesh of the goddess, he would trucidate the Dryad, violate her in a place unknown to the follies of men.
He wearies of stuprating palpitant flesh and becomes a lover of the dead.
The moist and warm summers produce a vegetation unequalled in richness and beauty, and in the springtime, when the snows are melting, the warm and still air {35} is palpitant with the music of countless waterfalls.
Florrie burst into Virginia's room, flushed and palpitant with her latest emotion.
They would be married to-night; they were eloping even at this palpitant instant!
The modern stage, too, brings evidence that a palpitant tableau is more appreciated than a polished comedy, and the concert-hall tells a story which is not dissimilar.
The design of these proved cubistic and the coloring all to the palpitant pink, Gaugin green and yammering yellow.
He had her in a mad, palpitant chancery but Verbeena put up some great infighting.
Throbs palpitant and passionate passed from one to the other--strong, vertiginous, terrific, as of an aching tooth.
Out there, beyond, swallowed up in that dear black smudge she had seen from the balcony her soul would wave its Stars and Stripes of freedom and move grandly in the palpitant sunlight upon the yellow linoleum of the mighty desert!
Once more every spectator was standing, and from opposite sides of the field came cries of dismay and wildly palpitant shouts of joyous encouragement.
Then good nights were called, the big car swung slowly round and rolled away, and Jimmy came hopping forth, palpitant to know about the game.
