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- noun Plural form of
throbbing .
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Examples
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I prefer scenes with extended foreplay and think the idea of 'heavings' and 'throbbings' is best left to individual imagination.
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Sharon made no reply as she patiently waited for the fresh throbbings within him to dull.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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Sharon made no reply as she patiently waited for the fresh throbbings within him to dull.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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Soon, oh! very soon, will death extinguish these throbbings, and relieve me from the mighty weight of anguish that bears me to the dust; and, in executing the award of justice, I shall also sink to rest.
Chapter 21 2010
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Soon, oh, very soon, will death extinguish these throbbings, and relieve me from the mighty weight of anguish that bears me to the dust; and, in executing the award of justice, I shall also sink to rest.
Chapter 4 2010
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To know you far away when your hand upon my heart would have stilled its throbbings; to feel that YOU were not here to give me that look so precious to me, to rejoice in our new hopes; that I was not with you to soften your sorrows by those caresses which made your Natalie so dear to you!
A Marriage Contract 2007
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In the pure and monotonous life of young girls there comes a delicious hour when the sun sheds its rays into their soul, when the flowers express their thoughts, when the throbbings of the heart send upward to the brain their fertilizing warmth and melt all thoughts into a vague desire, — day of innocent melancholy and of dulcet joys!
Eug�nie Grandet 2007
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As they came down they became audible as a complex of shootings and vast creakings and groanings and beatings and throbbings and shouts and shots.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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They are really the first throbbings of life, the harbingers of day; and it pleases you as much to hear them as it must please a shipwrecked seaman once again to grasp a hand of flesh and blood after years of miserable solitude.
Lay Morals 2005
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Even the small throbbings here and there seemed pleasant, a sense of healing being quietly accomplished.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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