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  • The original score, all a-throb with scary incipience, was composed by David Wingo.

    '50/50': Cheerful Illness Tale, With Relapses Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • The right blogosphere is a-throb over disturbing rumors concocted from the far reaches of thin air regarding Spielberg's upcoming movie about the trackdown and elimination of the terrorists who committed the massacre of Jewish athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

    Oliver Stone and Steven Spielberg: The Doublemint Twins of Treason: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • Grateful warmth that penetrated deep into the tissues, stimulating muscular activity, setting the pulses a-throb, revitalizing bodily functions long dormant.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • Grateful warmth that penetrated deep into the tissues, stimulating muscular activity, setting the pulses a-throb, revitalizing bodily functions long dormant.

    "Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2009

  • Throwing back the sheet she jumped to the floor, her temples a-throb, and ran into the hall.

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • And they were properly hushed when the Tree gently deposited them in that network of protective branches in his uppermost regions, where the life-leaf lay unfurled, huge and soft-edged, his pockets filling with buoyant gases from the parent Tree's great trunk, his tracery of veins a-throb with those special juices which had awak -

    Hero Of Dreams Lumley, Brian 1986

  • A tremendous rumbling purr now welled up in that room of strange HERO OF DREAMS metal, setting the soft-textured floor a-throb beneath their feet.

    Hero Of Dreams Lumley, Brian 1986

  • For he had made good his escape, the strange fragrance of the cool, early air with its absence of city smoke went to his head like wine and set his pulses a-throb with a very joy of living, and five hours, three hundred glorious minutes, if the excursion were stretched a bit past breakfast time, of enchanting, tantalizing sport lay before him.

    A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Herman Gastrell Seely

  • Shakespeare, to thine, a-throb with thought and feeling?

    Freedom, Truth and Beauty Edward Doyle

  • But what sweet hope is this that sets my heart a-throb?

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

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