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Heartquake

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Heart´quake`    (~kwāk`)
n.1.Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.
In many an hour of danger and heartquake.
- Hawthorne.
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I rushed to the side of the boat, intending to fling myself on shore; but the wheels, as they began their revolutions, threw a dash of spray over me so cold--so deadly cold, with the chill that will never leave those waters until Death be drowned in his own river--that with a shiver and a heartquake I awoke.
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