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Example sentences for "throbbed"

Lexicographically close words:
throate; throated; throats; throaty; throb; throbbing; throbbings; throbs; throe; throes
  1. His hand that had been trodden upon throbbed and was hot.

  2. But the whole effect was vague, the very buildings throbbed and leapt with the roar of the voices.

  3. His heart throbbed like a noisy engine in his throat and for a perilous instant he could not move his levers because of the paralysis of his hands.

  4. Well, I was dying with thirst, and my head throbbed terribly.

  5. I was breathless on reaching the rock, and sat down with a hand pressed hard against my heart, which throbbed with suffocating violence.

  6. Dutch had glanced at her once, and her heart throbbed with pleasure as she read his look as one more of sorrow than anger, and this last determined her to speak to him at all hazards.

  7. Thus cold in death that bosom lay, Which throbbed and bled for you.

  8. When my heart throbbed with pain and alarm, When paleness my cheek overspread, When sickness pervaded my frame-- Then my soul on my Maker was stayed.

  9. Half a dozen dull, half-muffled explosions throbbed in the distant jungle of broom and wild olive.

  10. Very faint was the pulse of the emotion which throbbed through Miller's eyes as he turned them towards his companion, but distinct enough for Landon to discover and greet with another amiable little laugh.

  11. And again a tiny spasm of fear throbbed through her.

  12. The pulse which throbbed through her--was it truly resentment?

  13. On the contrary, as though to spite him, it throbbed more and more violently.

  14. His heart throbbed painfully as he read it.

  15. After reading a few lines he frowned and his heart throbbed with anguish.

  16. For it was more than a voice that sang; it was as though the wings of a soul beat and throbbed in the singer's throat.

  17. My heart so throbbed and beat that I could not utter a word.

  18. They were great men not to Kentucky alone, but to the nation as well, and the hearts of the two boys throbbed with pride.

  19. Like all capitals on the verge of a great war, but as yet untouched by its destructive breath, it throbbed with life.

  20. Soon he saw a light, then a dark outline, and his heart throbbed greatly.

  21. As the winter stars flamed into the darkening sky, a tide of night-life flowed and throbbed under the silent trees.

  22. Chippy, however, concealed under his gentle, sprightly exterior a cool little brain, nor did ever a braver heart beat than throbbed under his white waistcoat.

  23. Day after day the wind howled up from the southeast, the storm quarter of that coast, and the air throbbed with the boom of breakers, while all the way down the Straits the white-caps foamed and roared among a tangle of cross-currents.

  24. Knowledge that has not been throbbed in cannot be throbbed out.

  25. The door was open; she entered, and her heart throbbed exultingly, for he was there.

  26. Beneath that cloak throbbed a mother's heart, and through that veil a mother's eyes sought the face she loved best on earth.

  27. The breath throbbed against the bare throat down which his beard climbed.

  28. Now that he stood near her his heart throbbed pain-fully.

  29. I had imagined that I saw upon his countenance a gleam, as it were, of the strong and tender thoughts which throbbed in my heart at that last moment of my teaching.

  30. A wave, and then another wave rose, and throbbed in my heart.

  31. And my head just throbbed and throbbed and throbbed.

  32. Gee, my head just throbbed from shouting so loud.

  33. He could not show her the soul tissues that throbbed and ached.

  34. She was an apostle, and her heart throbbed with pride and joy that this man of high, self-sacrificing purpose should desire her.

  35. The incorrigible old man’s heart throbbed with excitement; he paced up and down his empty rooms listening.

  36. Robert sprang to his feet as he saw St. Luc approaching, and his heart throbbed as always when he was in the presence of this man.

  37. His muscles throbbed for action as he sat and waited at the top of a sloping bank dotted with hawthorns that extended upwards from the edge of the avenue and terminated on the fringe of young coverts.

  38. Under her highest uneasiness, maternal pride throbbed at thought of the manly independence indicated by her son's action.

  39. His head throbbed and his mind was much excited by the intelligence of the day.

  40. The hot July air trembled agleam with shining insects, and drowsily over the hayfield, punctuated by stridulation of innumerable grasshoppers, there throbbed one sustained murmur, like the remote and mellow music of wood and strings.

  41. It was then her turn, and her bosom throbbed with just one dumb, fleeting shadow of fear that found words before her second thought had time to suppress them.

  42. Down in the earth the strong heart of reawakened nature throbbed with a pulsating force that sent new life forth on its errand of rejuvenation.

  43. The village hotel throbbed with the pressure of unwonted business.

  44. It throbbed and buzzed there in an echoing ache, as if all the previous sounds had been fire-waves and these the scorched furrows of its touch.

  45. For her eyes remained wide and glassy, dry and sleepless with the fever that throbbed ceaselessly in the poor tortured brain behind.

  46. The music throbbed into silence behind them.

  47. He came forward to meet his fiancée, and her heart throbbed fast and hard at the sight of him.

  48. In anguish of mind she faced him, helpless, unutterably ashamed, while that burning blush throbbed fiercely through every vein and gradually died away.

  49. To which Isabel made answer in that low voice of hers that so throbbed with tenderness whenever she spoke to her.

  50. Her heart throbbed at the memory of that all-conquering presence--the arms that had held her, the lips that had pressed her own.

  51. Her heart throbbed with a warmth that filled her with an odd desire to weep.

  52. In the morning she arose white-faced and weary, with dark shadows under her eyes, and a head that throbbed tormentingly.

  53. Her heart throbbed on again, fast and hard.

  54. She throbbed in his arms, pressing closer, ever closer.

  55. He was weak from hunger, tired nearly to death; bruised and battered until it seemed as though every muscle in his body throbbed with pain.

  56. West's heart throbbed with apprehension; suppose it was a dog, he had no means of protection from the brute.

  57. His heart throbbed at the sight, every nerve tingling to the intimate tones of her voice.


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