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								Ye can't get me excited over th 'throbbin' debate on th 'location iv th' Orynocoo Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901 
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								And my breasts as 'ard as stones, an' throbbin '! ... The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897 
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								But I think I feel it throbbin ', yes, I'll go back there tonight 
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								There'll be no more sobbin 'when he starts throbbin' his own, sweet song; 
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								Each morning during the fifteen bitter weeks, about half an hour before dawn, atop the pyramid that commanded the city, a slack-headed drum began throbbin& sending its echoes throughout the city and across our encampment, which crowded the walls. Mexico Michener, James 1992 
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								He dipped his knees slightly until he could nestle hard and throbbin in the cradle of her femlnlnl against her in measured circles, moving a grinding motion that spread a flushing from there into her chest. Breakfast In Bed Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1983 
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								Even then she demands to know what that throbbin 'noise is that she hears. Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907 
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								DARLIN ': I was sayin' Now I lay me -- throbbin 'with excitement. Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates Julia McCune Flory 1906 
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								The first pond I had come out of seemed to be covered up, and the great, tower in ', throbbin' precipice of sea-water was a-closin 'around me. 
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								But day by day I could see that her eagerness to accomplish what she had sot out to, her awful anxiety about the boy's future, wus a wearin 'on her: the active, keen mind, the throbbin', achin 'heart, was a wearin' out the tender body. Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881 
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