"Pulsate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the commander, "you mean these words of holy writ to apply to me, I am gratified, but fear you have under-estimated their grandeur and their real meaning. They pulsate the air, and make the heart throb with a conviction that the world of literature would have been poorer had they not been written. And now, Mr Rockfeller, let us cease further attempts at satire, and get to business. I wish to visit my parents who are very ...
— The Shellback's Progress - In the Nineteenth Century • Walter Runciman
... growing tall and green where the stone lay; the ground-bird builds her nest where the beetle had his hole; the dandelion and the buttercup are growing there, and the broad fans of insect-angels open and shut over their golden disks, as the rhythmic waves of blissful consciousness pulsate ...
— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg
... what is it makes pulsate the robe? Why tremble the sprays? What life o'erbrims The body,—the house, no eye can probe,— Divined as, beneath ...
— Robert Browning: How To Know Him • William Lyon Phelps
... space. Owing to the laxity of the connective tissue in this area, the effused blood tends to diffuse itself widely, and, according to the position assumed by the patient, gravitates to the region of the eyebrow, the occiput, or the zygoma. When a large artery is torn the swelling may pulsate. A haematoma of the scalp may readily be mistaken for a depressed fracture of the skull, owing to the fact that the margins of the effusion are often raised and of a firm resistant character. A differential diagnosis can usually be made by observing that the swelling is on a higher level than ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... twist about; the muscles in dead animals also, excited by the perception of cold, contract with a strong tonic movement, and render the body rigid. The hearts of some animals too, when torn out of the body, and even when dissected, continue their endeavours to pulsate. Is there any further evidence wanting? We may hence infer with sufficient confidence that the fibres (without the aid of the senses) may perceive irritation, ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various
... still sustained, orchestral song, which bears upon its surface the choral proclamation of the sun: "I am! I am life! I am Beauty infinite!" The flux and reflux of the instrumental surge grows in intensity, the music begins to glow with color and pulsate with eager life, and reaches a mighty sonority, gorged with the crash of a multitude of tamtams, cymbals, drums, and bells, at the climacteric reiteration of "Calore! Luce! Amor!" The piece is thrillingly effective, but as little operatic ...
— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel |
