1.   His heart beats faster and once a trembling goes through his slender body like unbearable expectation.

2.   My heart beat violently, almost painfully, and sweat trickled down my face.

3.   My heart was beating so fast I thought it would burst.

4.   The heart beats thick, Big trout muscle out of the dead cold.

5.   Her heart beat fast.

6.   The heart beats like a bag of worms instead of a pump.

7.   My knees are shaking, my heart is beating wildly and my head is enclosed in a crash helmet that seems much too thin.

8.   Warm, seeing through holly-eyes, heart beating like the frantic flutter of a bird, Tallis went with Holly-jack, deeper into the forest.