15165 examples of beats in sentences

Clouds of dust whirled up from under their powerful hoof-beats.

Here she saw for the first time, what she had not noticed in the heat and hurry of her ascent, that the girl was panting and her gentle bosom rising and falling in thick heart-beats, occasioned by the haste with which she had drawn her onward.

The heart of man still beats and bounds, exults and suffers, from causes which are only less salient and conspicuous because they are more mixed and diversified.

A master beats his servant so severely, that after a day or two he dies of his wounds; another master accidentally strikes out his servant's tooth, and his servant is freethe pecuniary loss of both masters is the same.

You will hear the very heart-beats of the lovers.

Nothing could dislodge them from its beautiful hills; the very sea, as it beats primly, or with a violence that never forgets to be discreet, on the indented shore, acknowledges their sway.

It beats Monte Cristo all hollow.

His heart beats to a rhythm: his blood pulses through steady circuits; like the plants by which he is fed, he comes to birth, grows, begets his kind, dies, and returns to earth; like the tides, his days of gestation obey the moon and can be reckoned by her; in the sweat of his body he tills the ground, and by the seasons, summer and winter, seedtime and harvest, his life while it lasts is regulated.

Editors marveled at the `material' coming out of Goa with well-rounded exposure in a city where people are quickly slotted into different 'beats'.

There were other beats like the police and courts, which had to be covered on daily basis.

It really does seem as if an Injun jest naturally hates an apostate, and it beats me how they can tell 'em the minute they try to sneak out of this valley of the Lord.

From far down this line came a low ringing chant and the strangely insistent drum-beats.

Then he climbed the low, rocky hill to the east and peered over the top, the drum-beats still pulsing through him, still coercing him.

What is more wonderful than the beating of your heart; your pulse which beats all day long, without your thinking of it?

Randolph showed George a letter about Katy, which he says beats anything we have heard yet, which is saying a good deal.

" "He is like the polite robber who first beats you to death and then says thank you for the purse," said Lady Deppingham.

Von Blitz beats his Persian wives instead of his Persian rugs, therefore he needed reforming.

Launches are used in Alaska and on some of the forests where there are large lakes, to enable the fire fighters and forest guardians to cover their beats quickly.

See next the coaches, how they are accouter'd, Both in the inside, eke and on the outward: One py spark, one sound as any roach, One poet and two fiddlers in a coach: The playhouse drab, that beats the beggar's bush, * *

Then the whole company entered the house, and from Manuel's station at the window you could see no more, but you could hear small prancing hoof-beats downstairs and the clattering of plates and much whinnying laughter.

This filled the cup of dreams in a way that the dominant exterior matters of the young correspondent's mindnewspaper beats, New York honors, great war stories, and a writer's namecould never have done.

Beats my heart, I know not why! GENIUS Where weapons are clashing

Then a descendant flight of sharper beats broke up that effect, and were repeated.

The kid beats the gun.

The beats were slow, feeble and slightly irregular, giving clear evidence, if any were needed, of his generally lowered vitality.

15165 examples of  beats  in sentences