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Example sentences for "heart began"

  • My heart began to beat violently now, for I felt I was near the time when my labours would be rewarded by success, or I should have to give up my search in despair.

  • I confess," he went on, "that my heart began to beat quickly at these words.

  • My heart began to throb wildly, while my brain seemed on fire.

  • The old man's heart began to beat, for the Touchards were rich and in a good position.

  • But one evening I surmised, while I was feeling the thickness of one of the panels, that there must be a secret drawer in it: My heart began to beat, and I spent the night trying to discover this secret cavity.

  • My heart began to thump and perspiration stood out all over me, but away down at the bottom I was happy.

  • I had not ridden far, before my heart began to be lifted up with pride at the thoughts of riding behind this servant of the Lord; and was pleased if any looked after us, as we rode along.

  • Ingmar's heart began to beat faster at the thought of her being so pleased with him.

  • Karin's heart began to pump hard, and thoughts came rushing into her head, as if on wings.

  • But Gertrude had no sooner felt Ingmar's protecting arm around her than her heart began to beat once more, and the feeling of numbness in her limbs was gone.

  • And at the thought, my heart began to burn with dull fire, hurting me so that I could hardly breathe: and yet strange!

  • I lay, little by little my heart began to cool, and all its fury ebbed gradually away.

  • For the first time Maggie's heart began to beat in an agony of dread.

  • Maggie's heart began to beat with reawakened alarm at this new proposition; but she was silent,--one course seemed as difficult as another.

  • I bent down, and he began talking in a low whisper, full of earnestness, as he unrolled his plan, and as he went on my heart began to beat, and my cheeks to flush.

  • But we had no sooner thrown ourselves down, than from the darkness ahead came the murmur of voices and the tramp of feet, very low and distant, but peculiar enough to make Brace spring up, while my heart began to beat heavily.

  • Nino's heart began to swell, and when he found it in one corner, snapped and broken, his grief and anger burst forth in a volley of Italian.

  • Neddy's heart began to beat wildly; he could feel the throbs all over him; there was a great pressure as if a hand were laid on his breast; he could scarcely breathe, so strong was the feeling of suffocation that oppressed him.

  • How wildly the poor little boy's heart began to beat!

  • Frank's heart began to throb violently, as he saw his father dart a fierce look at his brother-officer, and then take a couple of strides up the side of the table to where the baron sat on the colonel's right.

  • My heart began to beat as they passed on, and I wondered what would be the first steps taken.

  • Anne's heart began to beat high at the sight of a once familiar face, and with hopes of a really kind word from one who as an elder girl had made much of the pretty little plaything.

  • Then Anne's heart began to feel that persistence in her absolute refusal was a much harder thing than at the first, when the idea was new and strange to her.

  • So little did I know it that my heart began to be drawn to St. Germain, where I still imagined you.

  • I hurried Alice on, I looked back and around with a stealthy eagerness, my heart began to beat and my breath to fail as this occurred to me.

  • My heart began to beat more wildly when we were once more seated in the railway carriage, and proceeding on our way to Cambridge; for a little while I was speechless with the tumult of agitation into which I fell.

  • Anthony's heart began to sink again as he watched the Queen's face as she sat tapping a foot softly and looking on the floor as she talked.

  • Anthony's heart began to fail him, for he guessed now what was coming and the bitter struggle that lay before him.

  • Isabel's heart began to beat, and she walked quicker.

  • When the clock struck twelve, I promise you my heart began to beat as any girl's, I was so frightened lest Mr. Watson should not have received the cord, or that his courage should fail.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heart began" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arts and; ascertain what; but still; good wife; green leaf; heart ache; heart beating; heart hath; heart sank; heart seemed; heart shall; heart tells; heart was; heart would; hearted fellow; heartily wish; hearty cheer; hearty laugh; hearty meal; hearty shake; last hour; little delay; one who; physical geography; small iron; you please