Example Sentences
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Now through the mighty pulses of the land Throbbed the dark blood of war; and Sumter's guns Were the first heart-beats of a better day.
From Stories in Verse by Abbey, Henry
Throbbed there a heart in any of our bos-hem!--in any of the superstructures of our waists, that did not respond with joy and gladness to the sentiment of such a season?
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870 by Various
As he looked, the blackened heavens Splashed with demon-tinted blood From the hue of burning prairie Throbbed above the fiery flood.
From Nancy MacIntyre by Parker, Lester Shepard
And pale Stole the dim deer down the vale: And the haunting nightingale Throbbed unseen—the olden tale All its wild heart breaking.
From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
Faint on the evening Tenuous and far As the beauty shaken From a vagrant star, Throbbed the ache and passion Of an old guitar.
From Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country by Heyward, DuBose
