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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of palpitate.

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Examples

  • Maurice also read twice, before handing it back, this letter whose every word palpitated with sublime passion.

    The Honor of the Name �mile Gaboriau 2003

  • Maurice also read twice, before handing it back, this letter whose every word palpitated with sublime passion.

    The Honor of the Name ��mile Gaboriau 1852

  • After Margaret had told me to be hard I watched Tom Spink with an eagle eye, and he must have sensed my attitude, for he carefully forebore from overstepping, while all the time he palpitated just on the edge of overstepping.

    CHAPTER XLV 2010

  • As I palpitated to the situation, princess and sea-cuny and love not a little that threatened big, I racked my cuny's brains for wit to carry the thing off with manhood credit.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • "The more you gyrated, the more I palpitated." — Dancing judge Len Goodman, admiring Kendra's samba atop the judges' table. ...

    Matt's TV Week in Review: A Wedding, A Farewell, and More! 2011

  • My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear; and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me: —

    Chapter 5 2010

  • My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear; and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me:

    Chapter 4 2010

  • His ceramic heart palpitated, felt as though it would thump out of the hard wall of his painted chest.

    Gnome Lynn Beighley 2011

  • In a 1797 letter to George Washington, Claiborne described when he was born this way: “when every American Breast palpitated for freedom.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Blatant Unconstitutionality Started Early 2010

  • In a 1797 letter to George Washington, Claiborne described when he was born this way: “when every American Breast palpitated for freedom.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Blatant Unconstitutionality Started Early 2010

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