heart-throbbing

adj

adj

With the heart beating quickly from exertion or emotional reaction to a situation; causing the heart to beat so.

[A]t first the slightest suggestion of approach drove us into the scullery in heart-throbbing retreat.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 217:

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