"Palpitate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cathedral. It seemed as though there escaped from him, at least according to the growing superstitions of the crowd, a mysterious emanation which animated all the stones of Notre-Dame, and made the deep bowels of the ancient church to palpitate. It sufficed for people to know that he was there, to make them believe that they beheld the thousand statues of the galleries and the fronts in motion. And the cathedral did indeed seem a docile ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo
... dead father, of her dead uncle, of her dead grandfather, of her dead cousin. She invokes all these mournful shades, she feels as if she had all their sicknesses, she is attacked with all the pains they felt, she feels her heart palpitate with excessive violence, she feels her spleen swelling. You say to yourself, with ...
— The Physiology of Marriage, Part III. • Honore de Balzac
... away, ye who have a roof remaining! To bed with you, ye tenderlings! Now thunder rolls over the great arches, Now tremble the bastions and battlements, Now flashes palpitate and ...
— A Book of Burlesques • H. L. Mencken
... to palpitate with life while we scrutinise the amorphous block; and yet there is little there more tangible than some such form as fancy loves ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds
... for the sacrifice, I returned to the parlor, when the rumbling of coach-wheels, the sudden letting down of steps, and then a frightfully discordant ring of the doorbell, sent the blood from my cheeks and made my heart palpitate like a trip-hammer. "Is th-th-that the off-officer,—I mean the coachman?" I stammered. Yes, there ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
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