When all of these measures were complete, no heartbeat could be detected, closed chest massage was performed until a cardioscope could be attached, which revealed no cardiac activity was obtained.
It is from the aggregate heartbeat of living individuals, of we know not how many or what sort of worlds, that the sun rests stable.
In the same way, in physical function there is eating and drinking, and excrementation, on the lower plane and respiration and heartbeat on the upper plane.
The first time he had simply knelt and searched under the shirt with his hand for a heartbeat which had surprised him by its steadiness.
An eternity as brief as a dropped heartbeat and as long as the cycle of renewal and rebirth of worlds in the flaming vastness of space.
As he hurried over to give the old man a hand up, hisheartbeat speeded up.
His heartbeat quickened at the thought that there was a chance, very small but still a chance, that Sophia might truly be someone he could love, and that he could free her from whatever entanglement had dragged her into Manfred's power.
It was strange that at this of all instants she should for the space of a heartbeat lose her sense of the uniqueness of her fate and be confounded by amazement at the common lot in which they two and the vanquished sleepers alike partook.
She thought proudly of the enormousness of his chest and shoulders, and imagined the tremendous thudding thing the heartbeat must be that infused with blood such hugeness.
For the space of a single heartbeat he watched her move slowly toward the round doorway, then he had clambered to his feet, running after her.
The woman moved toward him with a liquid motion beautiful to behold, and for the space of a heartbeat Temple watched her come.
We are spurred on to sex life, to marriage, to the care of our children by instinct; but the instinct is not a personality any more than the automatic heartbeat is.
For each successive heartbeat Froms the web which heralds every breath And leases yet another moment From the miracle called Life.
With or without my own existence, life itself would go on, virtually heedless of one heartbeat lost to forever.
I know two physicians, both athletes when they were at college, who have suffered from a missed heartbeat since their early twenties.
Young patients particularly who have learned that they have a missed heartbeat need to have this fact emphasized.
Drawn back in a stiff, unnatural grin and I didn't have to bend down and listen for a heartbeat I knew I wouldn't hear to be completely sure that the words he'd spoken to me would be the last he'd ever speak on Earth.
It was impossible for me to doubt, but I still had to make sure, as he would have wanted me to do, by feeling for a heartbeat that wasn't there and satisfying myself in other ways.
I thrust my hand under his shirt and felt around for a heartbeat and found no trace of one.
She checked his heartbeat and respiration and found them ranging about normal, even as he descended the stairs to the top floor.
One feature of the heart action with which we are all perfectly familiar is that both the rate and the vigor of the heartbeat vary greatly from time to time.
Both the heartbeat and the breathing in the young child are much more rapid than in the grown person.
Another somewhat similar case is the prolonged rapid heartbeat following a violent emotion.
One property of adrenalin, as already noted, is to quicken the heart; so, as long as any adrenalin remains in the blood stream, the heartbeat will be faster than normal.
When one is lying quietly, the heartbeat is at its lowest point.
