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  • When ice -- mere lace on tree and bone fills up the cracks and cracks the stone whose splinter-clouds rain bloody bright against the queen of winter's white you'll know -- by footprints on her skin by frostbite -- by your pulse's din; through ice-shard winds you'll stumble to the queen of winter's rendezvous.

    Courted: a dirge (funded!) shweta_narayan 2010

  • When ice -- mere lace on tree and bone fills up the cracks and cracks the stone whose splinter-clouds rain bloody bright against the queen of winter's white you'll know -- by footprints on her skin by frostbite -- by your pulse's din; through ice-shard winds you'll stumble to the queen of winter's rendezvous.

    Courted: a dirge (funded!) shweta_narayan 2010

  • When the ship's sonar detects an incoming torpedo, the transducers simultaneously fire an acoustic shock wave of such intensity that the torpedo either detonates early or is disabled by the pulse's crushing force, according to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA, which is funding the project.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Zoe Brain 2005

  • When the ship's sonar detects an incoming torpedo, the transducers simultaneously fire an acoustic shock wave of such intensity that the torpedo either detonates early or is disabled by the pulse's crushing force, according to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA, which is funding the project.

    Damn the Torpedos! Zoe Brain 2005

  • Unless I'm much mistaken, the pulse's quickened, the moment's coming, the threads are racing, Niagara's ahead.

    Monday or Tuesday 1921

  • Warm with the throb of my heart, thrilled with my pulse's leap,

    The Watchman and Other Poems Lucy Maud 1916

  • Something in the pulse's beat caught his attention, and almost at the same moment his nostrils expanded suspiciously.

    Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Should swerve one hair's-breadth from the pulse's path,

    Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Each evening, with remorse that blotted all perception of the tragic comicality of the show, they saw him, in his false strength and his anxiety concerning his pulse's play, act this part.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Each evening, with remorse that blotted all perception of the tragic comicality of the show, they saw him, in his false strength and his anxiety concerning his pulse's play, act this part.

    Sandra Belloni — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868

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