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- adverb In a
palpitating manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Anne Applebaum nearly worked herself into a case of the vapors when Austerians got elected in Great Britain, palpitatingly repeating the phrases used by journalists there to describe the new government's budget.
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Dumas 'figures are palpitatingly alive, brimming with energy, desire, emotional complexity ...
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Today has been heart-palpitatingly hectic -- I spent all morning typing up a 50 page document only to get it back with huge X marks over 49 of the pages -- in the end, my boss needed a literal paragraph of the doc, but was too "busy" to "make herself clear."
Archive 2005-04-01 Michelle Collins 2005
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With a start she gained her feet and stood for a moment palpitatingly uncertain, clasping and unclasping her hands, while her bosom rose and fell in this stress of an utterly new emotion.
Princess Zara Ross Beeckman
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He answered the present summons promptly and palpitatingly.
Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates
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Tom and Dick made two bee-lines for the scorer and waited palpitatingly for the verdict.
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A man finds himself palpitatingly interested in what is horrible to him, as a bird is fascinated by a snake.
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He sat up, just out of range of one restless, beating arm, yearned to come closer and lick again the face of the god who knew him not, and who, he knew, loved him well, and palpitatingly shared and suffered all Skipper's trouble.
Chapter 7 1917
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Living, livingyes, the book is unmistakably palpitatingly alive.
Criticisms and Interpretations. I. By Frank T. Marzials 1917
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He was palpitatingly nervous, but he tried to carry it off with a high hand.
When a Man Marries Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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