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• s  having a slight and rapid trembling motion
  palpitant movements rather than violent eruptions

• Union between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches has been in a palpitant state of slow motion for six years.
• Lolling each night before palpitant play-goers at Vienna, a black buck Negro toys with white, honey-haired girls, boasting that no woman of their race has yet resisted him.
• He flayed Katherine Mayo, the palpitant, middle-aged maiden lady from Manhattan, whose Isles of Fear preceded her Mother India as a sensational bestseller, calling her a "vile .

• palpitating

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• Jack London in guardian.co.uk
  It was the sound that Jack London described: "Palpitant and tense...... It might have been a lost soul wailing, had it not been invested with a certain sad fierceness and hungry eagerness."