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throbbed

  • past participle of throb.
  • past tense form of throb.

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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

Along that scroll Count Louis' doom Throbbed till the letters flamed.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

Throbbed wildly the usually steady hearts of the cool islanders.

From The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

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