Though prudes may condemn me, and bigots reprove, I court the effusions that spring from the heart, Which throbs with delight to the first kiss of love.
The snake that hides and hisses In heaven we twain have known; The grief of cruel kisses, The joy whose mouth makes moan; The pulses' pause and measure, Where in one furtive vein Throbs through the heart of pleasure The purpler blood of pain.
How throbs the pulse when first we view The eye that rolls in glossy blue, Or sparkles black, or mildly throws A beam from under hazel brows!
We cannot fancy this prayer coming from Moses; but, for all that, it has the ring of faith in it, and beneath its blunt, simple words throbs a true heart.
David's answer throbs with buoyant confidence, and stands as a stimulating example of the temper in which God's soldiers should go out to every fight, no matter against what odds.
They are in singular contrast with the tone of fierce enthusiasm for battle which throbs through the rest of the chant, and with its stern approval of the deed of Jael when she slew Sisera.
Through every vein I feel again The fever of youth, the soft desire; A rapture that is almost pain Throbs in my heart and fills my brain!
And when the words were spoken and the lecturer sat down, the Easy Chair sat still and heard the rich cadences lingering in the air, as the young priest's heart throbswith the long vibrations when the organist is gone.
In a passionate outburst, as in Bob Cratchit's wail for his lost little boy, or in Scrooge's prayer to be allowed to repent, the whole scene lives and throbsbefore you.
My throat is parched, my head burns andthrobs with racking pains.
The cat-like tread of your primeval aborigine returns even to your civilized boots in the Woods of Westermain, the stalker and the hunter throbs faintly in your blood.
But my blood still throbs and my muscles still crackle with the strange eagerness and lust for battle.
But now it is no choice of mine to die: My heart throbs from me.
Pain with all thy throbs is blended-- Pain so dread!
I remember now; but I think I'm sick, my poor head aches and throbsso badly.
We have reached finally a wonderful couplet which fairly throbs with passionate devotion.
They are the heart's trust, from which we may ne'er be released; Blood keeps in its throbs the echoes of all the old songs And sings them the best when it flows thro' the heart of a priest.
My brow throbs ever on with such an ache As only your cool touch may take away; And so, I pray You, touch me with your hands!
The melancholy bray of the horn-blower ran up a minor scale and down again; the dub-dub of a drum rang out, and was thrown back in throbs by the encircling walls.
It throbs with emotion, and is a burst of rapture from a heart tasting the sweetness of the new joy of forgiveness.
He breathed deeply with the first painthrobs following the shock, and gritted his teeth.
He experienced a new sensation, vague, unaccountable, restless, like the first uneasy throbs that precede a toothache.
My head throbs so, and I am so sick at stomach that it is with difficulty I can write.
If while my passion I impart, You deem my words untrue, O place your hand upon my heart-- Feel how itthrobs for you!
Yes; the music throbs with mirth, Feet trip in time to it; yet what strange dearth Of glee midst all these graces!
I will," said Mrs. Lovell, and she suppressed the throbs of her bosom.
He refused to believe in it, but the short throbsof his blood were wiser.
It throbs with noble patriotism and is full of real prophetic insight, though he spoke to deaf ears and wrote for blind eyes.
Under the still sky's violet The heatthrobs on the air.
And from the throat of the soprano the words rang heavy with throbs of unfulfilment: "I would give half my life for this--to sing with Alvary.
The return to reality jarred upon her vibrant nerves, and she became aware of shooting throbs in her temples, and of the depressing moisture in the atmosphere.
Between the throbs of fever the passion for death seized him in a paroxysm, and mentally he felt the quiet waters stir beneath him and the quietness close over him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "throbs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
