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For months M-G-M had throbbed with preparations for a super-epic Quo Vadis, based on the famed Sienkiewiecz novel about Roman persecution of the early Christians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Almost every day for weeks past the new F4U had been rolled out of the Vought-Sikorsky plant across the road, had throbbed, roared, leaped into the air, whisked out of sight.

From Time Magazine Archive

In another minute the motor had throbbed to a standstill and the chauffeur was standing at the open door.

From The Splendid Folly by Pedler, Margaret

Not more than a musket-shot away lay Wolfe; the heart that but an hour before had throbbed with great and generous impulse, now still forever.

From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George

On the 22nd of May the march began—that forward movement, for the hour of whose coming many a heart had throbbed, and many a bosom beat high.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James