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

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

I can't understand then what on earth I saw in the man who made my heart go pit-a-pat.

From Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

Wit, wisdom, and energy may go pit-a-pat "at the double" on lower levels, but great soulèdness and probity only come to their perfection in a steadier region.

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis

And they asked no questions, because it was all so dreadful mysterious and romantic, and made their little hearts go pit-a-pat to have such a poetic brother.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)