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Automatic and involuntary as his heart-beating and air-breathing, was his defence of his meat once he had his paw on it, his teeth in it.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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In every breathing, heart-beating moment of your life you are given the opportunity to plant something juicy, positive, and life-affirming, or something that dulls your senses and energy.
Eli Davidson: Turnip or Tomato: How You Live Your Life? 2010
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In every breathing, heart-beating moment of your life you are given the opportunity to plant something juicy, positive, and life-affirming, or something that dulls your senses and energy.
Eli Davidson: Turnip or Tomato: How You Live Your Life? 2010
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The deeply searching melodies and the heart-beating rhythms made me remember the title of Elie Wiesel's book on Hasidic Masters, "Souls on Fire" (Random House).
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NICHOLAS DODMAN, VETERINARY BEHAVIORIST: ... romantic-hormones - flowing, heart-beating, veins-pulsing-type love, I don ` t believe they experience that.
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I bought a six-pack of Great Falls to drink on the way back to the ranch, and I felt a light-headed, heart-beating sense of victory and omniscience that I had known only in the infantry after moving all the way to the top of a Chinese hill without being hit.
The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986
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Dimly, through the heart-beating confusion, he felt that it was all too much.
The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983
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Secondly, it is itself a central office for the maintenance of certain vital functions, such as lung-breathing, heart-beating, saliva-secreting, swallowing, etc., all involuntary and unconscious in the sense that consciousness is not necessary to their performance.
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He looked at her in heart-beating uncertainty, and it seemed to him that all his future was waiting on that moment.
The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley
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A horrible doubt stopped his heart-beating for an instant.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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