752 examples of heart beating in sentences

The little Pilgrim looked at them with her heart beating, and was very glad for them, and happy in herself; for she had not seen this love before since she came into the city, and it had troubled her to think that perhaps it did not exist any more.

The story is a short one to relate, but to live through the days and months of sixteen unhappy years seemed an eternal process to the young heart beating high with hopes which must constantly be stifled, and give place to bitter disappointment.

For an instant he held her tight; he felt her heart beating as though it would burst through her bosom.

After I had lain there over an hour with my heart beating like a drum and with small hopes for the success of my undertaking, I heard at last the whistle of the approaching cruiser followed by a Babel of mad shouting and cursing among the boatmen.

Ida looked round the ward, her heart beating as fast as her condition would allow.

" I said no more, but leaned back against the cushions, my heart beating as if it were in my throat, and my brain throbbing in time with it.

She could hear her heart beating audibly, like the throbbing of a distant drum.

" For a moment I felt her warm fragrant breath upon my face, and her heart beating quickly against mine.

She could feel her heart beating violently.

" "Anywhere at all, sir," said Mike, his heart beating at this hint of what was coming.

It went on to the top of the stairs; these I began to descend, my heart beating fast with terror, my face blanched, I am sure, but my hand still moving along the body of the awful creature.

He stopped, his heart beating like a hammer, but he heard no more.

My tongue was like leather, my feet like lead, and my heart beating like a kettle-drum.

He did not raise his drooping eyelids until he heard the crunch again, and then when he opened them he sprang suddenly to his feet, his heart beating fast with alarm.

But who shall say his thoughts were not in some wretched hovel in the land of his birth, and his heart beating with the noble determination, that when his industry met its reward, those who had shared his sorrows in the crowded land of his fathers, should partake of his success in the thinly-tenanted home of his adoption.

" Then he leaned over Groener's shoulder and asked kindly: "Do you feel your heart beating fast, my friend?" "No," murmured the prisoner, "mymy heart is beating as usual.

He drew me so closely to him that, through his thin shirtthe only garment on the upper part of his figureI could feel the heat of his body, and his big heart beating wildly.

" She looked at him, her face perplexed with this new idea, her heart beating very fast.

He threaded the familiar streets, and, with heart beating high in delightful expectation, he stood before the door of Tching-whang's mansion.

He stepped into the post-chaise with his heart beating and his eyes sparkling, was conveyed through many varieties of delightful prospects, saw hills and meadows, cornfields and pasture, succeed each other, and for four hours charged none of his poets with fiction or exaggeration.

" But as the taxi rolled away, my heart beating a triumphant accompaniment to the roll of its wheels, I knew she was wishing me every malevolent thing possible.

At last Lady Constance dashed out upon the highway with a smile of cunning on her face, a devil's flash from her eyes, a haughty curving on her lips, and her heart beating faster and faster, the nearer she drew to the King's palace.

With heart beating fast from excitement I sprang from my sledge, ran up to the pavoska, and demanded in English, "Who is it?"

I should like to be assured that at this moment no soul besides mine is thinking of thee, that no other heart gives a throb for thee, and that I alone in the wide world am sitting at thy feet, my heart beating with full strokes.

So, his heart beating with some uncontrollable excitement, and her heart filled with smoldering rage, they descended the staircase, arm in arm, to the admiration of peeping housemaids and the pride of her own maid.

752 examples of  heart beating  in sentences