1 Atlanta, the heart of the Confederacy, was still beating full and strong, the railroads that were its arteries throbbing with the never-ending flow of men, munitions and supplies.
2 Her head was hammering and throbbing and the bright, sunlight stabbed into her eyes.
3 Melanie's thin hand was at her throat, clutching it as if it was torn with pain, and Scarlett could see the veins beneath the white skin throbbing swiftly.
4 Her head was throbbing with fatigue, and she had to go over the figures again and again; but at last it became clear to her that she had lost three hundred dollars at cards.
5 But Lily, though her attitude was as calm as his, was throbbing inwardly with a rush of thoughts.
6 Lily was throbbing with fear, but the insinuation fortified her resistance.
7 His impulse was to return to her side, to fall on his knees, and rest his throbbing head against the peaceful cheek on the pillow.
8 On the edge of the prairie, where the sun had gone down, the sky was turquoise blue, like a lake, with gold light throbbing in it.
9 The blood was pounding in his brain like an engine's throbbing; there was a frightful pain in the top of his skull, and he could hardly control his hands.
10 Again at eight o'clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties were five deep with throbbing taxi cabs, bound for the theatre district, I felt a sinking in my heart.
11 When the throbbing I had seen before, came into it as I looked at her, she absolutely lifted up her hand, and struck it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY 12 I saw the flashing black eyes, and the passion-wasted figure; and I saw the scar, with its white track cutting through her lips, quivering and throbbing as she spoke.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE 13 He felt that his heart was throbbing, and that he, too, like the mare, longed to move, to bite; it was both dreadful and delicious.
14 And again at the old sore places, hope and then despair poisoned the wounds of her tortured, fearfully throbbing heart.
15 He could hardly speak for the throbbing ache in his strong teeth, that were like rows of ivory in his mouth.