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A bright spot burned in either cheek, her respiration was short and difficult, and her pulse beat with feverish excitement.

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 Meanings and Examples of PULSE
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pulse
 n.  beat; rhythm; rate at which heart beats;
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  He sat down by Colin and felt his pulse.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  Dr. Craven sat down by him and felt his pulse and looked at him curiously.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  The master's pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  The accidental discovery, just made, that the proprietor of the Temperance Tavern kept liquor on his premises, scarcely fluttered the public pulse, tremendous as the fact was.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  To attain such a point, the blood must be heated to thirty-six degrees, the pulse be, at least, at ninety, and the feelings excited beyond the ordinary limit.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
6  A bright spot burned in either cheek, her respiration was short and difficult, and her pulse beat with feverish excitement.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran.
7  Every pulse beat with feverish excitement, every nerve was strained, every vein swollen, and every part of his body seemed to suffer distinctly from the rest, thus multiplying his agony a thousand-fold.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 111. Expiation.
8  With an expression of indescribable anguish he threw himself upon the body of the child, reopened its eyes, felt its pulse, and then rushed with him into Valentine's room, of which he double-locked the door.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 111. Expiation.
9  Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  I hailed the darkness that shut Ireland from my sight, and my pulse beat with a feverish joy when I reflected that I should soon see Geneva.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
12  Her pulse was much stronger, and every symptom more favourable than on the preceding visit.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43
13  Elinor perceived with alarm that she was not quite herself, and, while attempting to soothe her, eagerly felt her pulse.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43
14  He sat down with a smile, facing her, felt her pulse, and again began asking her tiresome questions.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
15  At midnight the patient lay without consciousness, and almost without pulse.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 17
Example Sentence:
1  The doctor listened to his breathing and checked his pulse.
2  The doctor felt her pulse on her wrist.
3  Last time I took my pulse, it was a bit fast.
4  Have green trees, have the pulse of the earth.
5  Clinton had an uncanny ability to sense the pulse of the nation.
6  The child's pulse was strong/weak.
7  I now clapped my hands in sudden joy -- my pulse bounded, my vein thrilled.
8  His hand slid from the back of her neck to circle the base of her throat, and her pulse leaped as her breasts tightened in sensual hunger.
9  In medical school Margaret developed her skill at diagnosis, learning how to read volumes from a rapid pulse.
10  I now clapped my hands in sudden joy--my pulse bounded, my veins thrilled.
11  By and by their pulses slowed down, and Tom whispered: "Huckleberry, what do you reckon'll come of this?" "If Doctor Robinson dies, I reckon hanging'll come of it."