In ecstasy I rolled away the obstruction, thrust in my arm, and, whilst my fingers clutched the golden heaps, my breast was on the earth, and I could hear the beatings of my heart.
And though all on account of Miss Pidge you could not hear the accents of my voice, you might have heard the beatings of my heart!
The beatings of my human heart drew me back to blank reality.
At the same instant, Doctor Nibor, who had his ear applied to the chest, cried: "I hear the beatings of the heart!
The air circulated through the room, bearing the odor of the woods, but for her it had no reviving power; it could not stay the beatings of her pulse, nor relieve the oppression of her panting bosom.
Why did the beatings of her heart stand still--that sick faint chill creep over her?
But she also is affected, she also trembles, and beneath her palpitating breast, he seems to hear the beatings of her heart.
It is there that the artless virgin utters her first confessions; there, that the plighted maid reveals the beatings of her heart; there, that the blushing bride unveils the secrets of the nuptial couch.
And, when at length he withdrew his mouth from it, he found that Suzanne was so near to him that he heard the beatings of her heart.
They followed the sound of her footsteps, which was soon lost in the silence, and found themselves alone, hearing nothing but the beatings of their own heart.
After a couple of days the miller came and said that he must tell him that the old donkey which was to have threebeatings and only one meal had died.
Had her loveliness been beloved, and had her innocent hopes anticipated the bridal-day, nor her heart, whose beatings were numbered, ever feared that narrow bed?
And of the many hearts all over loveliest Scotland in the sweet vernal season a-listening your lays, she is with the quiet beatings of the happy, with the tumult in them that would wish to break!
Whilst we are wondering what it is that has caused this sudden panic and collapse in a business that was so prosperous, we hear the clang of the slow and measured beatings of gongs.
Her body and her legs were all covered with scars caused by the beatings she had received.
The voice had assumed its usually soft, smooth tone, and Rosamond could not see the rapid beatings of the heart, nor the eager curiosity lurking in the glittering black eyes.
She had never believed that she did love her guardian, until told that he wished her to marry another, when it burst upon her in all its force, and she could no more conceal it now than she could stop the rapid beatings of her heart.
The clatter of the beast's hoofs over the stones kept time with the beatings of my heart, and I pressed my thin legs close to his thinner sides for company.
He did not know that she was seated behind it in a deep chair, wrapped in white things, and listening for him against the beatings of her heart.
For ten years the principal topic of conversation on the Retenue was about the beatings that Patin gave his wife and his manner of cursing at her for the least thing.
The soul Aeolian took up the lyre Born upon Thracian lands, as foster child; And on its golden strings the restlessbeatings Of Sappho's and Erinna's flaming hearts Were echoed burningly.
The brows of righteous men pass slow before me, Clouds calm and wide, full of refreshing rain; And from the lightless depths of hell, methinks I hear breast-beatings and dark blasphemies.
Yet in spite of all the beatings and burnings, the whippings and hangings, the world was not reformed.
If this failed to still the beatings of her aching heart, would you repeat these words which you say came from the loving soul of Christ?
These women accept their beatings with a simplicity worthy of all praise, and far from considering themselves insulted, admire the strength and energy of the man who can administer such eloquent rebukes.
He creates an uncouth symbolism, and blinds his soul within with names drawn from the Kabala or ancient Sanskrit, and makes alien to himself the intimate powers of his spirit, things which in truth are more his than the beatings of his heart.
If these were normal operations with a million impulses per second passing through The Brain you could hear and see as little of the pulse as of the beatings of a million mosquito wings.
I have spent my life and the strong beatings of my heart about the walls of cloisters.
He took her hand very gently, and tried to count the beatings of her pulse, but she snatched it from him with violence, and commanded him to leave her.
The stars dazzled her like sunbeams, and those low, murmuring, monotonous sounds, the muffled beatings of the heart of night, rung loudly and distinctly on her ear.
I did feel very unhappy last night, and when I entered this room, the dread of remaining all alone, in darkness and silence, almost stopped the beatings of my heart.
I can no more resist the impulse that draws me to you, than I can stay the beatings of this wildly throbbing heart.
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