palpitate

• I felt my heart palpitate, I had panic attacks and anxiety attacks that I never had before. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• Does her heart palpitate, as it is very apt to do? —  The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother
• My heart began to palpitate, for no Catholic ever made more faithful confessions to his absolving priest, than I to my only parent. —  Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
• The man then showed him to the drawing-room, where he said there was none but Miss Gourlay, he believed, who was waiting for the carriage to take her airing On hearing this piece of intelligence the stranger's heart began to palpitate, and his whole system, physical and spiritual, was disturbed by a general commotion that mounted to pain, and almost banished his presence of mind for the moment. —  The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
• Then his heart began to palpitate, his hair to bristle up, and his knees to totter; his thoughts were full of speculations as to how he would be killed and what it would feel like to be eaten alive. —  Werwolves

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