She is still young, but she has arrived at that age in which she longs with every throb of her heart to surrender her own separate existence, and to unite it with another.
Whereof we feel the fresh throb in the words of the aged speaker, who calls him "Blessed.
My head, too, now that I had not so much to think about, began to throb and ache.
To know that Mr. Scarlett and his men were safe and were on the veranda below put heart into me; but the position seemed so desperate that I wonder my brain didn't throb itself out of my skull that night.
The throb of the impulse precipitating speech subsided to a dumb yearning.
Ruined from earliest boyhood by weak indulgence, Alfred Greville felt sometimes a throb of natural feeling for his mother, though her counsels were of no avail.
But the steady roar of the train, the ceaseless throb of the engine, soon calmed my mind and steadied my nerve, and I caught himself wondering what kind of girl could be this Camille Velasquon whom I had undertaken to meet.
The throb of Fu-Manchu's car died into faintness and was lost in the night's silence.
Save for the muffled throb of the rare all-night cars passing the front of the house, our vigil had been a silent one.
The Christian feeling which had dictated efforts on behalf of ragged schools and factory children, and the welfare of the poor and distressed of every kind, had caused the same Christian hearts to throbfor the American slave.
Conceive what inspires it,--the great truth that in the Infinite there is a heart to throb for men and a will to strike for them.
Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thy heart shall throb and grow large; for there shall be turned upon thee the sea's flood-tide, and the wealth of the nations shall come to thee.
The child in whom neither cold nor hunger nor nakedness nor loneliness could move a throb of self-pity, was moved to tears that a loveliness, to him strange and unintelligible, had passed away, and he had no power to call it back.
But my heart-throb of childish delight was checked, mid-beat.
Over a social pipe a little later, Isaac Jackson heard the story that made his eyes bulge with interest and his heart throb with eagerness.
Money, fame, didactic or controversial impulse I scarcely felt a throb of.
III She had been sitting there for some moments when suddenly, with a great throb that seemed to vibrate through the whole length of the great vessel from end to end, the engines ceased.
He imagined that he felt her heart throb against his own breast, and had surrendered himself to the hope that it was newly awakened love for him which had deprived her of her calm bearing.
Billy was eager to feel the throb and jump of the mechanism under his hand.
The throb of the slowly running engine shook the car and made noise enough to drown any slight sound he might create.
But as Dan Speedwell felt the car he drove throb and shake under his manipulation, and realized that it responded to his will and touch, he could not but believe that his was the better one.
I thought not, as at last they came slowly up, looking from side to side, as if in search of intruders; and my heart beat with a heavy excited throb as I thought of the discovery, and the inevitable struggle to follow.
As she said this, she turned her back with disdain upon the picture of her home, and setting herself before the picture of the palace, stared at it with wide ambitious eyes, and a heart whose every beat was a throb of arrogant self-esteem.
But Rosamond now regarded that little throb of affection as a momentary weakness into which the deceitful ogress had betrayed her, and almost despised herself for it.
The thin, heavily veined hand on the arm of his chair quivered for an instant, and he felt his pulses throb quickly as if from acute physical pain.
Was that one minute not worth every heart throb he had suffered and every difficult hope for which he had battled in his thoughts?
The next instant he remembered again, with a throb of exhilaration that he was free.
It is all better, no doubt, as it is; this, I must admit, however lonely my heart maythrob in saying it.
The thought gave her a moment's bitter humiliation; then she saw the kindliness of the motive and felt a throb of gratitude.
Nothing to make your pulse throb and your face flush in that manner," she answered, sitting down beside him and laying her cool fingers on his wrist.
This was then the spirit in which he hovered, and with the easier throb in it much indebted furthermore to the impression of high and established adequacy as a pretty girl promptly produced in him by Mamie.
Completed, the bandage looked not too unworkmanlike, and was cool and comforting to the hot throb of the wound.
