The cold metal had acquired a palpitant life of its own.

Forest and stream and air seemed palpitant with their presence.

Here the very air was palpitant with life.

The great cleft aroused no palpitant enthusiasm within his broad breast.

The air was palpitant with its presence.

But love, real love, dewy and palpitant and tender, you do not know.

His face was palpitant with excitement.

The craving tore through his palpitant muscles, and throbbed like a living thing in his brain.

I made the brief trip by taxicab, and knocked with palpitant heart at the door of a neat and ancient building with plastered front.

Jenny strode forward from the alabaster glades in a blaze of blue witchlight, and her voice cut the palpitant air like a knife tearing cloth.

And through the swaying, palpitant vision, as through a fairy mirage, he stared at the real woman, sitting there and talking of literature and art.

I was not exactly palpitant at the prospect of having the embittered Beu about, especially during such a nervous time as that, but whatever Zyanya wanted I would get for her.

It was almost completely - out of the old skin now, revealing a pink, semi- transparent new skin through which an assortment of organs could be seen dimly in palpitant motion.

Mr. Blackwood achieves in these novels a close and palpitant approach to the inmost substance of dream, and works enormous havoc with the conventional barriers between reality and imagination.

The tableau of palpitant tension protracted itself almost unbearably; the two hidden men and the visible girl, the magnet midway between them, smoking down by the water's edge as if lost in thought.

Just in front of its nose a shimmering palpitant streak of silver shoots from the water into the air--a delicate, organic mechanism of flight, endowed with sensation, power of direction, and love of life.

Cloud upon cloudof them poured from above the moon orb yet, for eachwhose ashes were whirled away a score rushed in to meetthe striking fires, and all the air was palpitant with thetumult of their wings.

In winter, wearing a tweed coat-and-skirt and a small hat of black fur pulled over her eager, palpitant face, she seemed to move down the street in a drifting motion of suspense and exceeding sensitive receptivity.

Writhing and crawling, loathsomely palpitant with an unspeakable exuberance of foul and repellant vigor possible only to such meteorological conditions as obtained there, it threw its most hideously prolific growths against that radiant wall in vain.

She lay quiet then and let me kiss her, and presently her arms stole about my neck and her lips sought mine in an interval that I had drawn them away and they moved upon my lips in a gentle caress that was yet palpitant with passion.