pitapat
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And then she added, with a laugh, that he ought to be tied up, "for you are a cruel handsome man, Frank, and my heart goes pitapat at the very sight of you!"
From Love, the Fiddler by Lloyd Osbourne
How his heart had gone pitapat when he had discovered it and had quietly, oh, so quietly, dropped his baited hook into the clear, spring water.
From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Herman Gastrell Seely
I stood, and looked, and listened, and my heart went pitapat.
From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Count
Awguan, top horse and foreman of Stanley's mount, swung pitapat down the winding pass at a brisk fox trot.
From Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Anything like the sound of a rat Makes my heart go pitapat!
From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various
Pitt's panthers pitapatted round Nebraska; the line poked holes, Fullback Parkinson plunged twice for touchdowns.
From Time Magazine Archive
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