heart-beat

Such he had met constantly, but not one had ever drawn from him a superfluous heart-beat.

CHAPTER 8 2010

She was too occupied in glimpsing the vision of the one lone white man as she had first seen him, helpless from fever, a collapsed wraith in a steamer-chair, who, up to the last heart-beat, by some strange alchemy of race, was pledged to mastery.

Chapter 7 2010

Everything in the Northland had that crushing effect, -- the absence of life and motion; the darkness; the infinite peace of the brooding land; the ghastly silence, which made the echo of each heart-beat a sacrilege; the solemn forest which seemed to guard an awful, inexpressible something, which neither word nor thought could compass.

In a Far Country 2010

Everything in the Northland had that crushing effect, -- the absence of life and motion; the darkness; the infinite peace of the brooding land; the ghastly silence, which made the echo of each heart-beat a sacrilege; the solemn forest which seemed to guard an awful, inexpressible something, which neither word nor thought could compass.

In a Far Country 2010

She OWES McCain big time and she HAS to pay him back or he might just start telling the truth about her; her non-vetting, his realization after he hired her that she was dumb as a rock and how she actually kept people from voting his ticket because she would have been a ‘catastrophic mistake’ only a heart-beat away from the Oval Office.

Think Progress » Right-Wing Fringe Rebels Against Palin Over Her Endorsement Of ‘RINO’ McCain 2010

I think he will continue in office as long as he is 'compos mentis,' as long as his mental faculties are sound, regardless of the physical, and he has said in the past that he will serve this country to the last heart-beat.

Egypt's Ruling Party Announces President Mubarak Will Run Again 2010

Most persons never noticed the increase in heat and heart-beat, and the first they knew was when the scarlet rash came out.

Page 1 2010

I think he will continue in office as long as he is 'compos mentis,' as long as his mental faculties are sound, regardless of the physical, and he has said in the past that he will serve this country to the last heart-beat.

Egypt's Ruling Party Announces President Mubarak Will Run Again 2010

I would not want a dumb-ass a heart-beat away from the Presidency.

Think Progress » Bachmann claims Romney doesn’t believe RomneyCare was ‘a good thing for’ Massachusetts. 2010

I can't say that I'm proud of the fact but I've actually seen all the movies on the list (including Pan's Labyrinth and Heroes, season 1) and I'd give the award to The Golden Compass or maybe Harry Potter in a heart-beat.

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