throb
/θɹɑb/ noun C2- A beating, vibration or palpitation. · He could feel a dull throb in his head from the tension.
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Something warm and pleasant welled up in Marilla’s heart at touch of that thin little hand in her own--a throb of the maternity she had missed, perhaps.
Still, she felt her pulse, and finding it throb violently she remembered that the best method of dispelling such illusions was to drink, for a draught of the beverage prepared by the doctor to allay her fever seemed to cause a reaction of the brain, and for a short time she suffered less.
The count felt his heart dilate and throb; he opened his arms, and Haydée, uttering a cry, sprang into them.
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