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  • But the fresh water, and the little canoes, egg-shells, fairy bubbles; a big breath, a sigh, a heart-pulse too much, and pouf! over you go; not so, that I do not know.

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  • At every such pressure, the buried cliff responded with a vast heart-pulse of radio waves-a pulse detectable not only all over Lithia, but far out in space as well.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • At every such pressure, the buried cliff responded with a vast heart-pulse of radio waves-a pulse detectable not only all over Lithia, but far out in space as well.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • While swift, new tides through Nature's heart-pulse sweeping.

    Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 Various

  • With eyes that glaze, with heart-pulse running down,

    Poems Christina Georgina Rossetti 1862

  • They are withal the most beneficent, indispensable of human equipments: blessed he who has a skin and tissues, so it be a living one, and the heart-pulse everywhere discernible through it.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • While she sought for this paper, her very heart-pulse was arrested by the tone in which Mr. Thornton spoke.

    North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • But the fresh water, and the little canoes, egg-shells, fairy bubbles; a big breath, a sigh, a heart-pulse too much, and pouf! over you go; not so, that I do not know. "

    A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896

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