"Thumping" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... man Ryer, still stiff from his long, cold bath, hobbled out, and Pete ran before him. Yes, it was mother, the children and all the animals! For the first time in his life, the mean old sinner felt his heart thumping, in grateful emotion, under his woolen jacket, with its two gold buttons. Something like real religion had finally oozed out from ...
— Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks • William Elliot Griffis
... dreams but woke suddenly as though she had been flung into the midst of one. She sat up in bed, knowing from the thumping of her heart that she was seized with panic but finding, in the first flash, no reason for her alarm. The room was pitch black with shadows of light here and there, but she had with her, in the confusion of her sleep, uncertainty as to the different parts of the room. What had awakened her? Of what ...
— The Captives • Hugh Walpole
... With a heart thumping against his ribs at this strange and amazing coincidence, the American ducked his head carefully under the port hood ...
— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling
... out there like that, alone!" he muttered, rising to an elbow and thumping his hard pillow viciously. "Good Lord! ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... something pleasantly annoying in this superfluous abundance; it is like standing under a tree of ripe apples, and giving it a shake, with the intention of bringing down a single one, when, behold, a dozen come thumping about our ears. But the idea of the infinite generosity and exhaustless bounty of our Mother Nature is well worth attaining; and I never had it so vividly as now, when I find myself, with the few ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various
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