palpitant movements rather than violent eruptions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
For a moment the room was palpitant with suspense. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
The girls watched and waited in palpitant eagerness. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
And still the woman's soul was palpitant and enkindled. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman at Eighteen-Mile] Reference
Swooned the sound on the wide lagoons into palpitant silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
Finalement j'ai fait ma journee comme ca c pas tres palpitant. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
The palpitant desire of all nature in the spring thrilled through his heart. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
For a moment there was a silence -- palpitant, packed with conflicting emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Je peux pas dire que mes trois jours de nouvelle semaine etaient tres palpitant!. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
Palpitantes autem partes, etiam in quiete fuerint, etiamsi nullum illis motum induxeris palpitant. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Shaking Palsy] Reference
They look large and near and palpitant; as if they moved on some stately service not needful to declare. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
The thresher stood humming and palpitant, its great bulk painted a dull pinkish colour like a locust, but faded and stained with rust. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
It soared upward with a swift rush, till it reached its topmost note, where it persisted, palpitant and tense, and then slowly died away. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of Meat] Reference
The palpitant strains of "The Star Spangled Banner,". From Wordnik.com. [Something Else Again] Reference
Meanwhile, summer died, hot and palpitant and arid to the end. From Wordnik.com. [Broken to the Plow] Reference
Of palpitant light from crest to crest across the ridgy brine. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
Forest and stream and air seemed palpitant with their presence. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Wild] Reference
But love, real love, dewy and palpitant and tender, you do not know. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii] Reference
Scriabine, the awakening of that aërial palpitant sensibility was such. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
Another instant, and he was on his feet again eager, palpitant, tremulous. From Wordnik.com. [Brand Blotters] Reference
She stood, palpitant, a dull stare in her eyes, her frame throbbing violently. From Wordnik.com. [The Substitute Prisoner] Reference
Alcee Arobin wrote Edna an elaborate note of apology, palpitant with sincerity. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening and Selected Short Stories] Reference
She clung to him, as a woman ought to her lover, palpitant, warm, and helpless. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today] Reference
I was palpitant with apprehension, as who similarly placed would not have been?. From Wordnik.com. [Fibble, D.D.] Reference
They would be married to-night; they were eloping even at this palpitant instant!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bells of San Juan] Reference
Florrie burst into Virginia's room, flushed and palpitant with her latest emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Bells of San Juan] Reference
The Grocer, palpitant, with drooping lip, sees his Sugar taxe; weighed out by Female. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
The sunlight flecked her beautiful young body with fluttering patches as of palpitant gold leaf. From Wordnik.com. [In Old Kentucky] Reference
Beyond the wave-line, under a cover of foam, the jaded sea lay feebly palpitant like an old man asleep. From Wordnik.com. [Angel Island] Reference
It seemed for a moment as if he were an optical illusion, so beautiful, so shapely, and so palpitant was he. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse] Reference
But she had begun to recover in a degree, and was now, though palpitant within, making a furtive study of Mary. From Wordnik.com. [No. 13 Washington Square] Reference
Peer into our palpitant heart and you will feel that it is overflowing with sincere love and tenderness to you. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
He places masks or splendid commonplaces upon frames palpitant and vibrant with vitality in pleasure or in anguish. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
The door was opened by Evelyn: palpitant with excitement, and garbed attractively in the demi-toilette of very-young-ladyhood. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight] Reference
At the rehearsals, women and girls crowded in till the lobbies were unpleasantly congested with eager and palpitant femininity. From Wordnik.com. [Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay] Reference
And each time she felt a curious thrill under her feet and the palpitant touch of something that was like a gentle breath in her ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Woman] Reference
There, within hearing of the soldiers, the dialogue that followed was low-toned, and it was swift and palpitant with repressed emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Shot] Reference
Her hands, cased in battered gauntlets, went suddenly to her breast, as though she would muffle the palpitant heart beneath the jersey. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighted Match] Reference
But Sidney, visibly palpitant, was very pretty, much prettier than the Harrison girl, beating a tattoo with her heels in the next room. From Wordnik.com. [K] Reference
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