heart stands still
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Her spirit is breaking under this sense of desolation, when suddenly her heart stands still as she hears a voice utter her own name “Hagar, Sarai’s maid.”
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He wants nothing, he troubles about nothing; his heart stands still, only his eye lives.
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He does not complain, but he spends a great deal of the day in bed; and he is so white, so worn, that my heart stands still to look at him.
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My eye starts back from it; my heart stands still; And every pulse, and motion of my blood, With prohibition, strong as sense can utter, Cries out, "Beware!"—But does my sight deceive?
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And yet my heart stands still when I think of you in those awful trenches.
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