heart-exciting

Updated: June 9, 2025

"Only let Thy hand hold me!" I awoke with one of those awful heart-exciting starts that come in sleep, such as a new planet might give when first projected into its orbit, before centrifugal and centripetal forces have time to exert their influences. I wonder what it is.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862