heart-pounding

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1. Causing the heart to pound; dramatically exciting or shocking.

   Christina Culhane maintained a heart-pounding pace until she broke her stride to glance at her plastic Swatch.

   2006, Jill St Anne, The Italian Connection

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   The anguish, the numb misery, of believing that his beloved, Kahlan had been executed, had evaporated in a heart-pounding instant the day before...

   1996, Terry Goodkind, Blood of the Fold

   A simple bump in the road, an unexpected noise, a shadow, or flash of light triggered a heart-pounding, tire-screeching turnaround back to the scene...

   2005, Bruce M Hyman, Cherry Pedrick, The OCD Workbook

   In the early days, you may even experience a heart-pounding nightmare or two about being separated from your baby or your baby falling off a balcony...

   2007, Sandy Jones, Marcie Jones, Michael Crocetti, Baby's First Year