Adjective : He was subjected to triphammer interrogation by the police detectives.    From Dictionary.com. 

My heart started pounding again like a triphammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touch of Evil] Reference

Sprawled across him, her heart pounded like a triphammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honorbound]

She sat up with a start, her heart beating like a triphammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

Her breathing slowed and her heart eased from its triphammer pace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place] Reference

Outwardly he took no notice, but inwardly his heart was beating like a triphammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ninja]

Frank's heart was beating like a triphammer and his nerves were at a fearful tension.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive] Reference

My heart was going like a triphammer; glancing down, I saw that one breast was still exposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference

When she spoke again, it was in a clear, firm voice that made his heart triphammer inside his ribs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]

The ship quivered under the terrific, the unmistakable triphammer blow of propellant heptadetonite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters Of The Vortex]

The abnormally heavy traffic reminded her again that it was Friday, making her heart triphammer with dread.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silicon Mage]

Every one of them felt his heart beating like a triphammer as the sound of writhing, accompanied by groans, came to their ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck] Reference

Terrified, he clung to the rough surface of his raft, his heart beating triphammer hard, paining his chest, as he waited for what he knew must come.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

Then he stood upon it, his heart pounding like a triphammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Slade on a Transport] Reference

The fiddler twisted and turned, but his head went like a triphammer on the seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference

Marjorie, frightened, rose from the couch with her heart beating like a triphammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [I've Married Marjorie] Reference

` Fire! 'exclaimed I, while my heart took to beating like a triphammer, ` what fire?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Typee; a real romance of the South Seas] Reference

The man was not muscle-bound, after all, and he could drive a blow like a triphammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Piece of Steak] Reference

She clung to the telephone, her heart beating like a triphammer there in the dark, waiting for his answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [I've Married Marjorie] Reference

Through woods, and around hills, and into dense, almost impenetrable thickets he labored on, his side aching, and his heart thumping like a triphammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Slade at Black Lake] Reference

"Like a perishin 'triphammer!" nodded the Old Un. "Likewise, sir, you've.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Definite Object A Romance of New York] Reference

It is crushing the nut with the triphammer -- an absurd extravagance of energy -- but the nut is very effectually crushed all the same. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Valley of Fear]

The next few words were accompanied by almost as many triphammer punches: "You're a real bad egg, Vulchy - but you're low priority today, so I'm going to give you a chance you don't deserve!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sinister Six Combo]

"First I thought it was the triphammer," said Archer; "then I thought it was the mixing valve; then I thought it was bronchitis on account of the noise it made, and after that I decided it was German measles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Slade on a Transport] Reference

His heritage as a third-generation television writer shows a bit in the overall structure of the piece, but the triphammer pacing of the first two thirds of the movie compare favorably to the work of James Cameron, and, although the overall graphic style and composition of the cinematography owe more to Stan Lee and Jim Sternanko, there are elements of John Ford particularly in Whedon’s space shots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: September 2005 Archives] Reference

My heart was beating like a triphammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touch of Evil] Reference

My head was aching like a triphammer now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Noon]

Her heart was beating like a triphammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Financier, a novel] Reference