The physician, after feeling his pulse, (which, as every country has its peculiar customs, is done here about the temples and neck, instead of the wrist)after examining his tongue, his teeth, his water, and feces, proposed bleeding.

No mere earthly thing quickened her pulses like John Holmes' laugh.

Or to some cracked viol strummed With vile skill, or table drummed To the tune of some brisk measure, Wont to stir the pulse to pleasure, Men and maidens timely beat The ringing ground with frolic feet; And the laugh and jest go round Till all mirth in noise is drowned.

The inflections of her warm, young voice set his pulses throbbing as music sometimes did.

And so, dear young friend, fall to at once, taking such things as I have provided for you; and if you turn them, by the aid of your powerful imagination, into a fair banquet, why, then, peace be with you, and a summer by the still waters of some quiet river, or by some yellow beach, where, as my friend, the Professor, says, you can sit with Nature's wrist in your hand and count her ocean-pulses.

But, as the world and Persia have seen, a trifle like a treaty or a convention never balks Russia when she has taken the pulse of her possible adversaries and found it weak.

At the dawn of the Nineteenth Century, to examine a sick person's pulse, to inspect his tongue, to observe his breathing, to interrogate his skin by our sense of touch, and to try to make his statements and those of his friends fit in with some tenable theory of the nature of his ailment, were about all we could do.

Throughout those weeks and months of tangled, lurid sensations, of amazing happenings which were yet to come, Norgate never once forgot that illuminative rush of fierce yet sweet feelings which suddenly thrilled his pulses.

'I am not vigorous, but much better than when dear Dr. Lawrence held my pulse the last time.

Some timorous families did not go to bed on the night of the 31st of July; fear drove sleep from their eyes, and they awaited with fluttering pulse the hour of midnight, fearing lest the same bell which sounded the jubilee of the slaves might toll the death knell of the masters.[A]

But when the water was ready they found that they had forgotten to bring any pulse.

" The damsel thus her ardent thought expressed, And Rustem's heart beat joyous in his breast, Hearing her passionnot a word was lost, And Rakush safe, by him still valued most; He called her near; with graceful step she came, And marked with throbbing pulse his kindled flame.

I was used to it; it did not rouse all my pulses as it did at first.

With sparkling eyes, and bounding pulses they flew steadily southward, from time to time glancing below at the touring car.

It made Ruth very glad to be told she was at all like Leslie; it gave her an especially quick pulse of pleasure to have Dakie Thayne say so.

He had, with manhood, drifted to the city, and had become one of the city's cream in all acuteness and earnestness and what makes the pulse of life, when thousands and tens and hundreds of thousands congregate to live together in one vast hive.

In the uproar of the train it was impossible really to hear the sound, but Lefty caught the pulse of it.

The short manipulation necessary to test the lamenessviz., the walk and slow trotis sufficient to raise the animal's pulse and quicken the breathing.

" "You tried his pulse and his temperature?" whispered the doctor.

To find the pulse.

Through its silence hurried their pulses; through its significance her dazed young eyes looked out into a haze where nothing stirred except a phantom heart, beating, beating the reveille.

The new joy in his heart warmed his pulses, lightened his tongue, unlocked a new geniality.

For Thy Spirit is giving life perpetually, alike to me and to the insect at my feet; without Thy Spirit my lungs could not breathe one breath, my heart could not beat one pulse.

Does he suppose that after waiting all this time for the only man in the world who can keep me interested for four hours on a stretch and send my pulse up to a hundred and make me feel those thrilly thrills I've always longed fordoes he suppose that now I'm going to pay any attention to his silly notions about wills and things?

Then, without warning, an incredible thrill shot through her to the heart, stilling itsilencing pulse and breathnay, thought itself.