go pit-a-pat

Example Sentences

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Tough medicine, as she described it, and “stabilization” — which is “kind of my theme” — won’t make a great many hearts go pit-a-pat.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026

Where once she made our hearts go pit-a-pat, To-day, alas, they only pity Patti.

From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence

Lord! just to watch him standing near with that noble grave look on his face, and not giving one a thought, makes one's heart go pit-a-pat.

From His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

"And your little heart used to go pit-a-pat, so that you could hardly count the change?"

From King Coal : a Novel by Sinclair, Upton

Wit, wisdom, and energy may go pit-a-pat "at the double" on lower levels, but great soulèdness and probity only come to their perfection in a steadier region.

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis