Verb (used without object) : His heart palpitated wildly.    From Dictionary.com. 

Was it not more "palpitating" to set the prodigal in modern Paris?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference

In a palpitating plexus of white palaces they heap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

I am palpitating at the thought of seeing you so soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference

At length we lay on the bed palpitating and breathless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbidden Fruit Luscious and exciting story and More forbidden fruit or Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle] Reference

This was terrible news to my young and palpitating heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

When Pietro on that evening, palpitating as he was with fear, saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

Presently a palpitating sense of power and possession came to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference

With palpitating heart and trembling limbs, he viewed his position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference

She pressed her face against the window-glass in palpitating doubt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

Another palpitating wait; then an excited cry from more than one voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

Yes; and many a palpitating heart watches anxiously the state of the heavens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

A full palpitating sea lying under the languid heat of a late June afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet of the Dunes] Reference

It was with a palpitating heart that this injured woman entered the stage-coach at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference

This is Socialism, the most pregnant actuality in the palpitating life all about us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference

She stood before the couch palpitating with emotion, and radiant with a divine beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

"Are you married?" now inquired Clotelle, with a palpitating heart and trembling voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference

With a palpitating heart I laid my trembling hand upon one of her plump, white shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference

In the angle of the large bay-window, opening into the garden, he waited with palpitating heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

To Flora's palpitating consciousness this look made a perfect connection with Clara's next remark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

My mind was palpitating afresh with those Earthly scenes which had for years been fading out of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference

It was only a palpitating question, but to Devant it bore the awful condemnation of outraged girlhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet of the Dunes] Reference

There for a few minutes I lay still, my heart palpitating, and reflected on what was next to be attempted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

Immediately she was running towards the house, her heart palpitating, her breath coming and going in gasps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

We must fly -- come! 'and the speaker advanced with unreflective haste to the side of the palpitating girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference

With palpitating hearts and loud cries we ran towards the house, alarmed the family, and told them our trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

Job stood, with heart palpitating and conscience goading him, down by the big pasture gate to let them through.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference

Two thousand hearts are beating high with hope at prospect of the New, or palpitating with terror at contact with the Strange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

Before she started to tell them the results of the meeting she cast a glance of whimsical affection at her palpitating fiance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hepsey Burke] Reference

Fine speeches enough, to be sure; many of them instinct with a sort of ethical nobility; but a great palpitating speech, never.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

Perhaps my colleagues were as creeped out as I by the sight of a hottie in high heels and palpitating, anatomically correct wings!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erica Abeel: Toronto's Babes in Wings] Reference

The instructor was more than usually curt and crisp with an unsmiling sternness that struck terror to palpitating freshman hearts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference

If we have a frightening dream -- which is, after all, just mental images -- we may wake up sweaty, heart palpitating, our muscles tired and twitchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Words of Grace: Christianity and Verbal First Aid] Reference