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A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
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A beat or throb.
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The beat or tactus of a piece of music.
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An autosoliton
Examples of pulse in a Sentence
Her pulse quickened, as did her breath.
A pulse of warmth dispelled the tunnel vision that had begun to form.
A faint pulse of life came from the direction of the gym.
His hand caressed her cheek and then slid down her neck, sending her pulse into a frenzy of activity.
Jackson felt his pulse quicken.
Darian shouted again, and another pulse of power made the earth rumble.
Reluctantly she pulled away, her pulse and respiration in a race.
Dusty felt for her pulse before resting against the cabinets opposite him.
He checked Brutus for a pulse and then put an arm around her.
His predatory smile made her pulse fly.
He smiled, and looked over to Dean who felt his pulse quicken.
He felt the flicker of a pulse and prayed it was enough.
Sensing the pulse of power, Rhyn whirled from the far side.
Her pulse was flying, and her body cold.
Her pulse quickened as he drew her into his arms.
She glanced up at his face - so close to hers - and her pulse quickened.
She waited, her pulse quickening.
Either let the land lie fallow every other year or else let spelt follow pulse, vetches or lupine.
But, fortunately for her, she felt her eyes growing misty, she saw nothing clearly, her pulse beat a hundred to the minute, and the blood throbbed at her heart.
Her chin trembled at the steady pulse of his heartbeat beneath her fingertips.
He made no move to bite her or kiss her, simply studied her, his thumb stroking the pulse in her neck.
Her pulse quickened and she shook him harder.
Rhyn opened the door, surprised to find the jailer's room empty. He'd expected Jared at least. He closed the door quietly behind him. He snatched the talisman hanging near the door, the one that freed inmates from their cells. He ignored the quickening of his pulse as he entered the familiar cell block.
The sight of the white dodge ram truck threw her pulse into high gear.
Looking up into his sweet chocolate gaze, feeling the stroke of his hands on her face and neck, even the quickening of pulse — it was as if they had met all over again.
If her pulse were any indication, she should be happy – and cautious.
She did not pull away tonight, but pressed her body to his and he felt her pulse quickening.
The convent members who managed the Sanctuary had replaced the wall Rhyn knocked down with a row of brown tents that matched their dresses. Rhyn eased between two of them, aware of Kiki's fading pulse. He set his brother down on the ground and looked around wildly, hoping they hadn't sent Katie's Ancient Healer, Lankha, home to the underworld.
As she met that sweet chocolate gaze, her pulse did the usual dance.
Sleep may overtake the patient in the midst of the sweating stage, and he awakes, not without some feeling of what he has passed through, but on the whole well, with the temperature fallen almost or altogether to the normal, or it may be even below the normal; the pulse moderate and full; the spleen again of its ordinary size; the urine that is passed after the paroxysm deposits a thick brick-red sediment of urates.
The doctor came every day, felt her pulse, looked at her tongue, and regardless of her grief-stricken face joked with her.
He felt Prince Andrew's pulse, and to his surprise and dissatisfaction found it had improved.
Her pulse pounded like a drum in her ears.
Jonny's body was bloodied and beaten, though his pulse was strong.
His crying and shifting distracted her from the strange world around her and made her head pulse, as if he were trying to pry his way into her unwilling mind.
A small pulse of power, and the man dropped.
They said his pulse rate has increased over night, which might mean he is trying to wake up.
She closed her eyes and offered her neck, surprised to find her pulse quickening in excitement.
The way the pulse throbbed in her neck when he kissed it, and the way she sounded out of breath when she pushed him away – the feel of her breasts when she molded her body to his...
When his other hand moved up her arm in a caress, her pulse quickened.
The principal crops are wheat, pulse, maize, millet, with some cotton and sugar-cane.
The principal crops are millets, pulse and cotton.
The soil is in general very fertile, the principal products being rice, maize and pulse (kachang) in the lower grounds, and cinchona, coffee and tea, as well as cocoa, tobacco and fibrous plants in the hills.
With the instinct of a true statesman, he felt the pulse of the people, divined their need for prestige, and their preference for a government heavy-handed rather than lax.
Other symptoms of undue absorption are vertigo, deafness, sounds in the ears, stupefaction, a subnormal temperature, nausea, vomiting and a weak pulse (Sir Thomas Fraser).
All those symptoms are referable to spasmodic constriction of the small surface arteries, the pulse at the wrist being itself small, hard and quick.
The feeling of heat is at first an internal one, but it spreads outwards to the surface and to the extremities; the skin becomes warm and red, but remains dry; the pulse becomes softer and more full, but still quick; and the throbbings occur in exposed arteries, such as the temporal.
The principal crops are millet, other food-grains, pulse, oil-seeds and cotton.
Lisa returned her attention to the picture, her pulse quickening.
Her breathing was quick, the pulse he felt in her neck flying.