Example Sentences

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True, but had they known the dangers they were to encounter, the trials they would have to come through, brave as they undoubtedly were, their hearts might have throbbed less joyfully.

From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Stables, Gordon

How many hearts have throbbed with anguish, and eyes overflowed with tears at the utterance of these thrilling words!

From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

How the mother-heart of Mary must have throbbed as she listened to her nephew John's story of Jesus on the Jordan.

From A Life of St. John for the Young by Weed, George Ludington

O, say, amid this wilderness of life, What bosom would have throbbed like thine for me?

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

There is not the slightest inhospitable inflection to this, but if he had said, "Why do you go?" or "You had better wait," her heart would have throbbed with pleasure.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie