athrob

Adjective

1. Throbbing.
   • Thou wondrous harper, that hast thrilled my heart, […] And made me all athrob with ecstasy,— - 1858, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Alfred, Westminster, act V, page 50:
   • The great test was on, whether such a nation could live, and Boston was athrob with love of country and eagerness to sacrifice. - 1911, James Oppenheim, chapter 4, in The Nine-Tenths, New York: Harper, pages 57–58:
   • […] all the earth was blurred in darkness and the sky a-throb with starlight, for it was yet an hour until the rising of the moon. - 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 24, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London:...