When I went outside and opened my hand, there was a rapid beating and a gray blur, and the bird was gone.
After almost a minute, the track brings in a clipped horn section and a fleet, rapid beat, a bit like Chicago Steppers music blended with Earth, Wind and Fire.
Rapid breathing and sensation of feeling the heart beat (palpitations) or a rapid heartbeat.
The device can act both as a pacemaker, capable of speeding an abnormally slow beat, and as a defibrillator, capable of correcting an abnormally rapid beat, which can be suddenly fatal.
The Guidant Corporation said yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration had approved a device to treat postoperative atrial fibrillation, or a rapid heart beat.
Having experienced swollen ankles and a rapid heart beat as a side effect of a calcium channel blocker prescribed for hypertension, she stopped taking the drug and never returned to the doctor.
You see, resilience is a response to racism, like a rapid heart beat is a response to fear.
One recent Sunday, a crowd began forming even as the group warmed up, entranced as the steady, rapid beat riffed into new patterns.
He limited his gestures to raising his right arm, finger pointing skyward in time with the rapid beat.
A thousand snare drums beat a rapid, intense rhythm on the metal roof, inducing a trance that was pure peace, contrasting the thunder that rumbled overhead.
The feet may be crisscrossing in the air, or a foot may be making rapid beats against the knee of the other leg, but meanwhile the torso is tipping this way or that, and powerfully.
