heart-action

On the physical side these patients were subject to headaches, migraine, restlessness and anxiety, often associated with disturbances of heart-action, hypochondriacal complaints, and a tendency to become easily tired upon physical or psychic exertion.

Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

The shock of dropping fifty feet through the air, and landing without experiencing anything more dangerous than a greatly accelerated heart-action was enough, of itself, to make the girl of the Red Mill dumb for the moment.

Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Alice B. Emerson

This exercise will augment digestive power, steady heart-action, make the body light and the mind calm.

The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga A. P. Mukerji

His examination is as thorough as the stethoscope can make it; in fact, he listens to your heart-action long enough to make you fear the worst.

The Patient Observer And His Friends Simeon Strunsky 1913

Dr. Burns has told me that her heart-action was the weakest and most irregular he had encountered; that, at any hour, without seeming provocation, it might stop.

Mrs. Red Pepper 1912

He saw not one flicker, but noticed a certain tiny come-and-go, the merest sort of vibration, which indicated the agent's heart-action.

The Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

He saw not one flicker, but noticed a certain tiny come-and-go, the merest sort of vibration, which indicated the agent's heart-action.

The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

Hagar was conscious of a distinct quickening of heart-action and a rush of crimson to her cheeks; with a pretty, hurried movement she rose to a sitting position in her hammock; I really am ashamed of myself.

Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902

The above purposeless movements and increased heart-action may be attributed in chief part to the excited state of the sensorium,10 and to the consequent undirected overflow, as Mr. Herbert Spencer insists, of nerve-force.

The expression of the emotions in man and animals 1898

Suffocations, singular heart-action, cough tearing one to atoms.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898