" She could not follow him down the vista of fancy, but stood interrogating him with her heartbeats at her throat.

It lowered the heartbeat of Lefty Joe to a tremendous, slow pulse.

If I had another animal, maybe a horse or a pony, I'd gladly unload your crummy old worthless hide in a heartbeat!

" "Coloma!" thought Gloria with a quickened heartbeat.

The last report and the crash of the front door slammed behind Dupont were as one heartbeat to the next.

With an air of bravado, but with a slightly accelerated heartbeat, Tunnygate thrust himself through the hole in the hedge and looked scornfully about the Appleboy lawn.

Then the chains at last bit through to a purchase, the car scrambled to the crown of the road and lunged precipitately away; and the lights of the other dropped astern in the space of a rest between heartbeats.

[vital signs] breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse, temperature.

Rhinehart dropped his head to listen at her breast for the heartbeat.

Till his last heartbeat, he was to be conscious of the nearness of Isabel.

Joe leaned over the bathroom sink, thumped it, and listened to its heartbeat.

Mr. Laudersdale comprehended the whole matter at a heartbeat, and took it.

In the space of a heartbeat, all her romantic Italian imaginings vanished.

They were of a dozen different nationalities, and as the girl looked at them it was not with revulsion or scorn but with a sudden quickening of heartbeat and a little laugh that had in it something both of wonder and of pride.

My heartbeats loud and fast: O! press it close to thine again, Where it will break at last.

Our heartbeats, the taste of water, the rising and setting of the sun, or, in the case of a child, milk, or the presence of its mother, or of its brothers, do not seem to become, in sound health, distressingly monotonous.

Sahwah felt herself turning red and white and her heartbeats thumped against her eardrums.

Mingled feelings rise at sight of the soft brocade whose bodice once throbbed with the happy heartbeats of this Virginia maiden, making pretty curtsy in rosy pleasure, the admiration of the English Court.

More than once, as he was walking through the woods, his heartbeat and his face flushed; there, beyond the trees lived his wife, his darling, from whom a fate more cruel than death had parted him.

Of greater present interest than the heartbeats of hero or heroine are the minor characters of the story, presenting genially the various types of humor or studies from life made in the "erotic academy" or in the families of Richter's pupils.

That woman whose faculties have been cultivated, whose gifts have been trained, whose mind has been enlarged, whose heartbeats respond to the touch of the unseen human, and whose quickened insight recognizes father, brother, sister, and friend beneath the strange as well as the dilapidated robe.

For he is wily, that blue-eyed one; never would he choose the rawhide unless he knew its hiss as he knows his own heartbeats.

I know the heartbeats of the fellow who is riding to the place of execution, with a reprieve.

Every breath, every heartbeat was pregnant with contingencies of life and death.

Then I lay down there in the dark, and began to tell off the time by my heartbeats, allowing forty-five hundred to the hour, and was not far wrong.