pulse-beat

• “H.L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg “indubitably an American in every pulse-beat.””

  carl sandburg | father to son « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

• “The light brush of his mouth against each sensitive pulse-beat, the curve of her breast and the sensual pull of his tongue as it laved its peak.”

  Purchased By The Billionaire

• “Watched the pulse-beat at the base of her throat quicken.”

  Did You Say Twins

• “Only the pulse-beat above the right eye betrayed the bitterness he was struggling to control.”

  The Lighthouse

• “Through this, he filled the hollow chambers with molten wax and then measured from the resultant cast the volume of the heart-beat and the minute-volume of the heart, which he calculated from the pulse-beat.”

  Werner Forssmann - Nobel Lecture

• “The midget lapsed into torpor, swaying a little with each pulse-beat.”

  The Space Merchants

• “Our nearest and dearest friend, sitting so near that we can hear his every breath, can see if his blood runs by a single pulse-beat faster to his cheek, may yet be thinking thoughts which, if we could read them, would break our hearts.”

  Hetty's Strange History

• “England and America alike have felt the pulse-beat of the reformers, ready and longing for a change that will be radical and honest in its workings.”

  Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885

• “And that light is the inherent radiance of His person and face, and that the universal passion of love is the throbbing pulse-beat of His own great heart.”

  Quiet Talks on Power

• “Tis the heart of the world," broke in Jeffreys, "and no man can say he knoweth life until he hath felt the pulse-beat of the great city.”

  Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea

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