Object

• heart: Her palpitating heart was deeply affected by the sermon which was on the very words of that Psalm.

• fact: Stevenson contrasts " the warm and palpitating facts of life " with the " chill and arid knowledge " gained by education.

Preposition: with

• fear: I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door.

Modifying Another Word

• still: My heart was still palpitating from watching her emerge from the waves.