2. Verb. (third-person singular of throb) ¹
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Definition of Throbs
1. throb [v] - See also: throb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Throbs
Literary usage of Throbs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Mark her breast's convulsive throbs ! See, the tear of anguish flows ! — Mingling
soon with bursting sobs, Till they rest their ghastly gleam Loud the laugh ..."
2. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1901)
"... attended by the beating I have mentioned, and whose throbs I could easily
count, without feeling my pulse, or putting a hand to any part of my body. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1810)
"The Gout, with torture, rankles in my Near threescore year* and tea -»the term
joints, And, in excruciating throbs, forbids Repose — Patience, ..."
4. Poems: And Poems of California and the West by Benjamin Franklin Field (1904)
"... (The heart that throbs, intense), Doth• soar aloft on spirit wings In realms
unknown to ignorance. WOMAN'S EYES In a second — With the lift and turn of ..."
5. Poems: And Poems of California and the West by Benjamin Franklin Field (1903)
"... The mind that grasps at grandest things, (The heart that throbs, intense),
Doth soar aloft on spirit wings In realms unknown to ignorance. ..."
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