go pit-a-pat

Example Sentences

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Tough medicine, as she described it, and “stabilization” — which is “kind of my theme” — won’t make a great many hearts go pit-a-pat.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026

If my reply make his heart go pit-a-pat with joy he can give me a gold piece.

From The Faery Tales of Weir by Sholl, Anna McClure

I know it's all fake, but just the same, it makes my little heart go pit-a-pat.

From King Coal : a Novel by Sinclair, Upton

Then Carl felt his heart go pit-a-pat, and all the snow wreaths on the trees seemed to turn to bridal flowers.

From The Faery Tales of Weir by Sholl, Anna McClure

Where once she made our hearts go pit-a-pat, To-day, alas, they only pity Patti.

From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence