It is strange how disuse makes one awkward: I felt a palpitation, as if I were going to speak there myself.

Coffee often disturbs the rhythm of the heart and causes palpitation.

Philes, a Greek author that flourished in the time of Michael Paleologus, writes that a sheep or kid's skin, whom a wolf worried, Haedus inhumani raptus ab ore lupi, ought not at all to be worn about a man, "because it causeth palpitation of the heart," not for any fear, but a secret virtue which amulets have.

She whispered it to herself over and over again, striving to control those awful palpitations.

There are few attempts to exploit the emotions by describing the palpitations of injured beauty or the expostulations and vows of love-sick cavaliers.

Brightness and darkness are woven together on his figures like an impalpable veil, aërial and transparent, enhancing the palpitations of voluptuous movement which he loved.

When in her life before had she experienced a nameless palpitation of her heart?

I was trembly all over, and my stomach generated a nervous palpitation that made me seasick.

Can you picture to yourself the palpitation of our hearts as we approached his mansion?

Some add palpitation of the heart, cold sweat, as usual symptoms, and a leaping in many parts of the body, saltum in multis corporis partibus, a kind of itching, saith Laurentius, on the superficies of the skin, like a flea-biting sometimes.

Seest thou not that this unseasonable gravity is admitted to quell the palpitations of this unmanageable heart?

These struggles between two resolute wills always brought on her palpitations, and she wished she had her phial of digitalis with her.