Her terrible stillness impressed me most painfully by its very unlikeness to the heaving, palpitating crowd about her.
Quite suddenly the gray landscape glowed with a palpitating radiance, unreal, beautiful beyond expression.
John Doe was streaked with sweat and his flanks were palpitating with fatigue when Lone rode up to the corral and dismounted.
Mighty and glorious are the days of youth; happy the moments of the LOVER, mingled with smiles and tears of his devoted, and long to be remembered are the achievements which he gains with a palpitating heart and a trembling hand.
The worldpalpitating with fresh young life--it is the Holiday of holidays, the Golden Holiday for each and all--the Birth of Spring.
He did not know whether it was his own or that of the palpitating mortal slowly dying beside him.
From the palpitating mass fluttered locks of white hair, and a feeble hand, trying to repeat the sacred sign.
As she went up in the elevator, her heart was palpitating with pleasure and distress.
I was horribly afraid you would not," said Ailsa in a palpitating whisper.
Overhead the expanse was dark blue, with a few palpitating stars.
Dick muttered something inaudible under his breath; but Nan was quite equal to the occasion; she was still palpitating a little with the pleasure Dick's words had given her, but she confronted her tormentors boldly.
She was not now only a cloud of dazzling, palpitating light.
In the air, above the vast, closed doors, hung Allaraine, in a dazzling cloud of glory, his form all but indistinguishable in the palpitating rays of his aureole.
Over this embroidery she sat with cold lips and a palpitating heart, thankful that this miserable sensation throughout the daytime seemed to counteract the tendency to tears which returned with night and solitude.
She was a part of that involuntary, palpitating life, and could neither look out on it from her luxurious shelter as a mere spectator, nor hide her eyes in selfish complaining.
She was surprised and annoyed to find that her heart was palpitating violently, and that it was quite useless to try after a recovery of her former animation.
In palpitating throbs of woe, It now arose and whirled the snow With triple energy renewed, Filling the dismal solitude With woeful shriekings of despair, As demon orgies in the air, And culminated in a roar More violent than aught before.
The elements petitioning The pardon of their stormy king, E'en as the supplicating cries Might from the damned in torment rise, And cleave the palpitating air With hopeless accents of despair.
Amaranthine glosses came over them then, and the unresting world wheeled her round to a contrasting prospect eastward, in the shape of indecisive and palpitating stars.
There was so much Excitement in her, such palpitating Vitality, that her very Heart-beats seemed to find their Echo in my breast.
They threw themselves into the crowd, which was slowly dispersing, all palpitating yet with the excitement of the day.
An immense black cloud, palpitating with lightnings, had settled on the cone of Vesuvius.
The purple sky above was throbbing, beating, palpitating with light, of stars and planets, and a great gold-red moon was climbing slowly over the misty plains of Romagna.
Anon the boys dug down where the string indicated, and often found two or three palpitating rabbits cornered at the end of a tunnel.
I understood that I was the cause of the fact that she, who had been a moving, living, palpitating being, had now become motionless and cold, and that there was no way of repairing this thing.
Unable to sleep, and with her heart palpitating at every sound, Akulina lay awake all night vainly awaiting Polikey's return.
Here Tess flung herself down upon the rustling undergrowth of spear-grass, as upon a bed, and remained crouching in palpitating misery broken by momentary shoots of joy, which her fears about the ending could not altogether suppress.
After wearing and wasting her palpitatingheart with every engine of regret that lonely inexperience could devise, common sense had illuminated her.
He could almost imagine that the boy's innocence was indeed a perfume, and that the palpitating roses had become a sonorous chant.
He could almost imagine the magic transmutation of the senses accomplished, the strong sunlight was an odor in his nostrils; it poured down in the white marble and the palpitating roses like a flood.
He was watching her narrowly, she knew, and after a few palpitating moments she nerved herself to meet his look.
The cold douche that followed, freezing his palpitating flesh, reminded him of the baths of his twentieth year, when he used to plunge head first into the Seine from the bridges in the suburbs, in order to amaze the bourgeois passers-by.
He went downstairs, turned toward the Madeleine, and began to walk without knowing what he was doing, dazed as if from a blow, his legs weak, his heart hot and palpitating as if something burning shook within his breast.
We kept the path through the wood, and in a short time we got a sight of the high-road; and, to the joy of exhausted lungs and palpitating hearts, we found that we were full a mile in the rear of the Austrian barrier.
Fortunately, the door was shut, and I passed it with a palpitating heart, thanking Heaven for my hair-breadth escape.
A great silver moon and a mighty host of palpitating stars put the electric lights to shame on Christmas Eve.
They were still a mile away from the entrance of the mountain pass when Anita, looking up into the clear dark blue sky where the palpitating stars were coming out, saw the blue smoke curling upward from the pass.
Anita went regularly to see Mrs. Lawrence, and as the young are appalled at the thought of life going out, she watched with palpitating fear what seemed a steady journey toward the land where spirits dwell.
He had ridden three hours, scarce conscious of anything but the mental traverse, when the palpitating beat of hoofs pounding the drum-like turf fell upon his ears.
Carney had felt the chill of death creeping over him in the saddle; the deadly chill, the palpitating of the chest that preluded a false warmth that meant the end, the sleep of death.
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