palpitant

Example Sentences

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Throughout the palpitant anxieties which are the lot of every bride, Miss Kelly was everything the enthusiastic Monegasques could have wished.

From Time • Apr. 18, 2013

All last week Dr. Lowell's stout old heart was palpitant with the excitement of getting those Russian bells hung just right.

From Time Magazine Archive

The New York World: "What they have done is to scrap all the palpitant rah-rah and get back to the scheme of the founders."

From Time Magazine Archive

Alcée Arobin wrote Edna an elaborate note of apology, palpitant with sincerity.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

She leaped up, spurning the black rim; glowed, palpitant, through that filmy lace—and all the desert throbbed with vibrant light.

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove