Literary notes about throb (AI summary)
The word "throb" is employed in literature to evoke a sense of intense, often physical, emotional experience. Authors use it to describe the rapid beating of a heart that mirrors inner turmoil or passionate delight, whether it’s the quickening pulse of anxiety or the fervent rhythm of love and desire [1][2]. At times, "throb" conveys the steady undercurrent of hope or sorrow as characters face critical moments, linking the visceral sensation of life to the theme of human vulnerability [3][4]. Moreover, its usage extends beyond the physiological to include mechanical or environmental forces, reflecting the pervasive, almost musical energy found in both nature and human existence [5][6].
- First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë - For days after I met you, something seemed to throb in my veins.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Would he arouse him with a throb of agony?
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Prince Andrew recognized him at once, and felt a throb within him, as happens at critical moments of life.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - With every throb of the engines we sprang and quivered like a living thing.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle - " "The unique throb of life in all creation could seem only poetic imagery before your advent, Professor!
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
