I had come to within a few paces of it, when, suddenly, a peculiar sense of fear thrilled through mea fear, palpitant and real; whence, I knew not, nor why.

The sky was full of a palpitant light.

That night there was no moon, but the stars, those great glittering stars of the Sierra, made the hour softly palpitant.

They look large and near and palpitant; as if they moved on some stately service not needful to declare.

First on the way to Jimville you cross a lonely open land, with a hint in the sky of things going on under the horizon, a palpitant, white, hot land where the wheels gird at the sand and the midday heaven shuts it in breathlessly like a tent.

Arriving in front of the Hôtel de l'Univers it executed a full stop and stood curbed yet palpitant, purring heavily: an impressive brute of a car, all shining silver plate and lustrous green paint and gold, the newest model of the costliest and best automobile manufactured in France.

The thoughts of your people seem dipped in the colors of the rainbow, palpitant with the play of winds, eerie with the thrill of a spirit-world unseen but felt and feared.

Yet the soft movement of her bosom with her even breaths triumphed in a life supreme and palpitant over all that dead world.

The door was opened by Evelyn: palpitant with excitement, and garbed attractively in the demi-toilette of very-young-ladyhood.

He places masks or splendid commonplaces upon frames palpitant and vibrant with vitality in pleasure or in anguish.

And each time she felt a curious thrill under her feet and the palpitant touch of something that was like a gentle breath in her ears.

At last her wild, romantic verses became more unrestrained; the music quickened until, regardless of all things, Fray Joseph burst the thicket asunder and stood before her, huge, exalted, palpitant.

flashing in affluence of splendor, throbbing and palpitant with life, drawing all the light from the little woman's candle, from the sparkling armor around, from the steel barbs, and the distant lantern, into its bosom.

It was such uplifting vistas that inspired the human imagination, in the days of its youth, to breathe a soul into the universe and make it a living thing, palpitant with love and hope; it was an outlook that would have moved the narrowest, the smallest, to think in the wide and the large.

Italy, the Italy of his trip abroad, came back to him now, vivid, palpitant, vitalized, glorified by Leonora's revelations.

Claire Robson, palpitant and eager, followed Edington's lead, but almost at the first moment of their rhythmic flight they came crashing into the overcoated bulk of a man cutting across the corner of the ballroom in an attempt at a swift exit.

A palpitant imagination outranks "cold intelligence;" sensation, divorced from all its bearings or functions, is its own excuse for being.

When once the shrinking dizzy spell was gone, I saw below me, like a jeweled cup, The valley hollowed to its heaven-kissed lip The serrate green against the serrate blue Brimming with beauty's essence; palpitant With a divine elixirlucent floods Poured from the golden chalice of the sun, At which my spirit drank with conscious growth, And drank again with still expanding scope Of comprehension and of faculty.

On sentait que le râle énorme de ce cuivre Serait tel qu'il ferait bondir, vibrer, revivre L'ombre, le plomb, le marbre, et qu'à ce fatal glas Toutes les surdités voleraient en éclats; Que l'oubli sombre avec sa perte de mémoire Se lèverait au son de la trompette noire; Que dans cette clameur étrange, en même temps Qu'on entendrait frémir tous les cieux palpitants,

Then, calmer, yet as if she had run a race, panting, palpitant, she seated herself on the sands.

" Some influence had gone out from them which seemed to create a palpitant atmosphere of delight in which they stood.

and the Duke bowed upon his knee and touched with his lips the great ring upon his Majesty's hand; "I did engender with a brain unwebbed by wine, a body ample of strength and health, my soul absolved, my heart palpitant with pure love and rich intention; but corruptible Nature hath adulterated and brought forth an oaf, to which I lay no claim" "Egad!

Or did it represent the allegory of fecundity, the Hindoo myth of life, an existence held between the hands of woman, distorted and trampled by the palpitant hands of man whom a fit of madness seizes, seduced by a convulsion of the flesh?