palpitant

• She clung to him, as a woman ought to her lover, palpitant, warm, and helpless. —  A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today
• She was palpitant, yet able to think. —  No. 13 Washington Square
• The soul was there, palpitant, awake. —  Out of the Ashes
• The harshness died Within me, and my heart Was caught and fluttered like the palpitant heart Of a brown quail, flying To the call of her blind sister, And death, in the spring night SONG AT SANTA CRUZ Were there lovers in the lanes of Atlantis: Meeting lips and twining fingers In the mild Atlantis springtime How should I know If there were lovers in the lanes of Atlantis When the dark sea drowned her mountains Many ages ago Were there poets in the paths of Atlantis: Eager poets, seeking beauty To adorn the women they worshipped How can I say If there were poets in the paths of Atlantis? —  Georgian Poetry 1920-22
• Hazel knew what drama was to be enacted; knew what the knobbled sticks were for; knew who crouched in the tall, kindly wheat, palpitant, unaware that escape was impossible Plenty o' conies, sir!' —  Gone to Earth

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