Noun : the pulsebeat of a town. From Dictionary.com.
As she slipped closer, Aleka's pulsebeat accelerated. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
For a pulsebeat their hands remained clasped together. From Wordnik.com. [There Will Be Time]
For one pulsebeat, we trod a trail beneath a stippled sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Courts of Chaos]
For a pulsebeat he stared across the hollow at the other boat. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
The wind and my pulsebeat were competing wth perception, though. From Wordnik.com. [Sign of the Unicorn]
The humming of a ventilator mixed with a pulsebeat in Danny's head. From Wordnik.com. [*BD* 11 1 86] Reference
His tongue flicked out to taste the damning pulsebeat below her ear. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
It was no more than a flicker of movement in no more than a pulsebeat of time. From Wordnik.com. [Captives Of The Night]
Her head felt heavy, and as her pulsebeat slowed, she reviewed the events of the evening. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
She was too aware of the silky-hard breast against which she lay, the pulsebeat strong behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
My ears rang with my own pulsebeat, and my throat closed so tight that I felt I could not breathe. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
He held me hard against him then, without speaking, and I could feel the pulsebeat in his throat, hammering like my own. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Away back in 1853, a man named Wendell Phillips said that "politics is but the common pulsebeat, of which revolution is the feverspasm.". From Wordnik.com. [Europe, NATO and North America and their Future Relationships] Reference
Standing with back to bulkhead, the captain let silence stretch, beneath the pulsebeat and whispers of the ship, while he scanned the faces of those seated before him. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
Vehicles and pedestrians alike were sparse, the city's pulsebeat quieted to a murmur through mild summer air --- day's work ended, night's pleasures just getting started. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
It was dreadful to know that a half-aware electronic brain watched every pulsebeat of her existence, and no doubt occasionally a bored human supervisor examined her screen at random. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
The galley was close enough to hear that, constantly, and it reminded me like a pulsebeat how the time was slipping away, and how we had so little time and they had all the time that ever might be in this dreadful place. From Wordnik.com. [Port Eternity]
In the ship's measure, the mass of the atoms that its fields scooped up increased with the rising velocity; distances that it was traversing shrank, as if space were flattening under the impact; time passed more quickly, less of it between one atomic pulsebeat and the next. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
He never quitted his dear one's beside until the last pulsebeat, and then he sank beneath the load of grief. From Wordnik.com. [Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography] Reference
He never quitted his dear one's bedside until the last pulsebeat, and then he sank beneath the load of grief. From Wordnik.com. [Marse Henry : an autobiography,] Reference
"Jamie laughed, disturbing the even movement of his pulsebeat. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Through a quickening pulsebeat, he heard Lewis's carefully dry voice: "Lately, here, using the Maxwell superconducting telescope, we've found what appear to be similar phenomena elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
THE MORNING Mason and I brought Opal home to our apartment at UNH, we propped the hospital’s car seat on our bed and sat on either side of her, scared to speak or move, watching over her as she slept, her tiny body one pulsebeat like that of a bird, if you cup it in your palms to see if it’s injured. From Wordnik.com. [The Worst Thing I've Done] Reference
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"Yes?" he prompted out of his pulsebeat. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
He doesn't know how to listen to talk like that as more than slogans strung together: hasn't learned to hear with the revolutionary heart, won't ever, in fact, be given enough time to gather a revolutionary heart from the bleak comradely love of the others, no, no time for it now, or for anything but one more breath, the rough breath of a man growing afraid in the street, not even enough time to lose his fear in the time-honored way, no, because here comes Schutzmann Joche, truncheon already in backswing, the section of Communist head moving into view for him stupidly, so unaware of him and his power ... the Schutzmann's first clear shot all day ... oh, his timing is perfect, he feels it in arm and out the club no longer flabby at his side but tensed back now around in a muscular curve, at the top of his swing, peak of potential energy ... far below that gray vein in the man's temple, frail as parchment, standing out so clear, twitching already with its next to last pulsebeat ... and. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
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