Throbbings

I prefer scenes with extended foreplay and think the idea of 'heavings' and 'throbbings' is best left to individual imagination. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Soon, oh, very soon, will death extinguish these throbbings, and relieve me from the mighty weight of anguish that bears me to the dust; and, in executing the award of justice, I shall also sink to rest. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sharon made no reply as she patiently waited for the fresh throbbings within him to dull. ❋ Janet Dailey (2011)

Soon, oh! very soon, will death extinguish these throbbings, and relieve me from the mighty weight of anguish that bears me to the dust; and, in executing the award of justice, I shall also sink to rest. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To know you far away when your hand upon my heart would have stilled its throbbings; to feel that YOU were not here to give me that look so precious to me, to rejoice in our new hopes; that I was not with you to soften your sorrows by those caresses which made your Natalie so dear to you! ❋ Unknown (2007)

In the pure and monotonous life of young girls there comes a delicious hour when the sun sheds its rays into their soul, when the flowers express their thoughts, when the throbbings of the heart send upward to the brain their fertilizing warmth and melt all thoughts into a vague desire, — day of innocent melancholy and of dulcet joys! ❋ Unknown (2007)

As they came down they became audible as a complex of shootings and vast creakings and groanings and beatings and throbbings and shouts and shots. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

Even the small throbbings here and there seemed pleasant, a sense of healing being quietly accomplished. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

They are really the first throbbings of life, the harbingers of day; and it pleases you as much to hear them as it must please a shipwrecked seaman once again to grasp a hand of flesh and blood after years of miserable solitude. ❋ Unknown (2005)

My left temple developed periodic throbbings severe enough that I was forced to close my eyes until each episode had passed. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It seemed as though something of those throbbings of delight which are common to most of us when we are young, had come to him for the first time in his old age. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Three weeks ago, he says, a profound hush fell on Kilauea, and the summit crater of Mauna Loa became active, and amidst throbbings, rumblings, and earthquakes, broke into such magnificence that the light was visible 100 miles at sea, a burning mountain 13,750 feet high! ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

No vain efforts of a refined imagination can sooth the wants of nature, can give elastic sweetness to the dank vapour of a dungeon, or ease to the throbbings of a broken heart. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Its insistence was borne upon little despairing, rhythmic beatings — throbbings that were like the muffled sobbings of the drums of grief. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She seemed to approve my declaration, by the complacency of her aspect; and I was so transported with the discovery, that more than once I was on the point of making up to her, to disclose the throbbings of my heart in person, had not that profound veneration, which her presence always inspired, restrained the unseasonable impulse. ❋ Unknown (2004)

How all the peaceful impressions and sensations in that time of stillness were consistent with the painfully sweet and agitated throbbings of my heart when I dreamed of violent decisions I do not know, but again ❋ Unknown (2003)