The voice of the river rose quite alone in the silence, and a single star seemed to palpitate in a white agitation as it listened.
Dusk was upon the river; stars began to palpitate elusively in the pallid sky; shadows mustered thick along the bank.
The silence grew heavy--seemed to palpitate through the room.
Also, by observation, he convinced himself that in a dying animal the blood within the right auricle may palpitate of itself after the palpitations due to contractions of the auricular wall have ceased.
They seem to palpitate in sympathy with the deeds they witness, instead of being mere scenic backgrounds.
Was this what made her heart palpitate annoyingly when she heard the horse's footsteps on the gravel?
She was really getting somewhat febrile in her excitement; and now in this drive through the park her usual susceptibility to changes of light and scenery helped to make her heart palpitate newly.
The sun had set now and a single bright star glowed solemnly in the west, but the valley was silent except for the frogs that made the air palpitate with their chorus.
After these single combats causing the hearts of all the lookers-on to palpitate with warlike ardour, the shock of the forces could no longer be postponed.
These girls shouted bitter mockery against the Mussulmans; or recited epic poems, accompanying their rhymes with the thumping of tabors, causing the hearts of their lovers to palpitate with burning ardour.
This last word she pronounced with some hesitation, and a downcast look, while her face underwent a total suffusion, and the knight's heart began to palpitate with all the violence of emotion.
It will only palpitate when I shall feel placed on my brow the sovereign crown.
Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees That palpitate like the chill seas Around the misty Hebrides!
The waters of the river have a saffron and sickly hue; and they flow not onward to the sea, but palpitate forever and forever beneath the red eye of the sun with a tumultuous and convulsive motion.
They are wrung out of the excitement of the moment, and palpitate with the spirit of the game.
The ballads teem with imagination, they palpitate with emotion.
Bolanden's works fairly palpitate with the gravity of themes of living interest.
He throws the warmth and life of his whole heart into his writings; his words breathe and palpitate and affect one like the presence of a noble and high-wrought nature.
To behold that body whose form burns you, that bosom which possesses so much sweetness, that flesh palpitate and blush beneath the kisses of another!
She fell face downwards upon the floor, and there was no longer any sound audible in the cell than the sob of the drop of water which made the pool palpitate amid the darkness.
