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  • Now it was as if somebody had given a shot of adrenalin to the heart of the mountain, the heart had started pumping, the black blood had burst through the rocks-of course it's blood, thought Eddie Willers, because blood is supposed to feed, to give life, and that is what Wyatt Oil had done.   (source)
  • Yet even the adrenalin and bloodlust that pumped through their veins could not dispel the exhaustion from their hard march.   (source)
  • I could feel my heart beat and the fiery, enlivening flow of adrenalin in the blood.   (source)
  • The kiss, which had more pressure than feeling behind it, produced that extra surge of adrenalin in the girl that enables one to carry a packed trunk out of a burning house, but in her, the power went at once to the brain.   (source)
  • But, on the other hand, you chase a rhino for more than five minutes in a car and he'll drop dead from adrenaline shock.†   (source)
    adrenaline = “fight or flight” stimulating hormone
  • I could feel the blood pulsing in my neck, sweat at the base of my spine, the sickening rush of adrenaline.†   (source)
  • But before he got greedy, Jake took another walk around the office, his head spinning and his adrenaline rising.†   (source)
  • Something disturbs me … adrenalin's pumped in my blood and I get short-winded, that's all, that's all there is to it.   (source)
    adrenalin = “fight or flight” stimulating hormone (also spelled "adrenaline")
  • Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward.†   (source)
  • Still crowded with adrenaline, Liesel caught sight of him smiling with such absurdity that she dragged him down and started beating him up as well.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline shoots through me and I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods.†   (source)
  • I was jacked up on adrenaline, unsure of what to do next, overcome by a paralyzing mixture of fear and rage.†   (source)
  • They are high on adrenaline, and often high on illegal substances as well.†   (source)
  • Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.†   (source)
  • The crew was jumpy, coursing with adrenaline.†   (source)
  • The adrenaline that had first powered Edgar had ebbed, and he staggered along with Tinder in his arms.†   (source)
  • It's the consequence of adrenaline and other hormones flooding our system, usually in response to some kind of stimulus.†   (source)
  • Inside, they collapse in front of a roaring fire, adrenaline and relief surging through them.†   (source)
  • My adrenaline rush left me.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline was rushing through Wes's body, followed quickly by fear, but no regret.†   (source)
  • They look as windblown as I feel, the frenzy of adrenaline in their eyes and their hair askew.†   (source)
  • The jolt of adrenaline has forced his heart to pump furiously and this heart is not a strong one and the pumping leaves him drained.†   (source)
  • The curator felt a surge of adrenaline.†   (source)
  • Harry didn't want to sit still: He was too full of adrenaline.†   (source)
  • figured, with the crazy adrenaline coursing through my body, I might be able to jump over the rim again.†   (source)
  • A sudden adrenaline spike woke me up, and I jumped out of bed.†   (source)
  • He was weary and thirsty, and he could not really focus, and the adrenaline had died inside of him.†   (source)
  • Her adrenaline kept her pacing through the night.†   (source)
  • Jess said, "Yeah, adrenaline."†   (source)
  • The waves were big and I could feel the adrenaline rush.†   (source)
  • Spencer's skin prickled with adrenaline.†   (source)
  • Already, adrenaline pulsed through him, making the edges of his vision swim and his senses more acute.†   (source)
  • My blood sings, coursing with adrenaline, my pulse so loud I almost miss his whispered words.†   (source)
  • The adrenaline's gone to his head.†   (source)
  • I can't tell if adrenaline is keeping me from feeling other effects of my fall.†   (source)
  • Liquor and adrenaline took over.†   (source)
  • The adrenaline in the throat and the lungs expanding.†   (source)
  • And as my father moved, his adrenaline raced.†   (source)
  • A red warning flashed across her retina display, informing her that she was experiencing elevated levels of adrenaline.†   (source)
  • He had felt a sudden rush of adrenaline, as if he'd turned a street corner and run into a long-lost friend.†   (source)
  • Gil took forever to answer the door, and when he did, Eleanor realized she'd used up all her adrenaline knocking.†   (source)
  • I could feel the adrenaline surge into my bloodstream.†   (source)
  • Now that the adrenaline and excitement have faded, my legs feel like they're made out of iron, and I'm panting before I've gone a quarter of a mile.†   (source)
  • He played in Seattle last night but he's always so full of adrenaline after a gig, and driving helps him to come down.†   (source)
  • All at once the thrill of adrenaline kicks in.†   (source)
  • I finished half the bottle sitting on her sofa by myself, my eighteenth burst of adrenaline kicking in just when I thought I'd finally go to sleep: My eyes were shutting, I was shifting my pillow, my eyes were closed, and then I saw my wife, blood clotting her blond hair, weeping and blind in pain, scraping herself along our kitchen floor.†   (source)
  • I was riding on adrenaline.†   (source)
  • The air filled with adrenaline-induced war cries from Redd's soldiers, agony-infused moans from the throats of King Nolan's men.†   (source)
  • But the adrenaline rush caused him to over compensate, and in slow motion Mack watched his feet rise up in front of him as if jerked up by some jungle trap.†   (source)
  • Kassad's adrenaline was flowing and the bloodlust had him in its grip.†   (source)
  • With a near-supernatural burst of adrenaline, he made a dash for me, forcing Miss Dominatrix to break into a sprint to keep from being pulled off her feet.†   (source)
  • A rush of adrenaline shoots through my body as I look down at his hand, still holding on to mine, still holding on to the volume button.†   (source)
  • The adrenaline that had kept me going earlier was slowly turning sour.†   (source)
  • Instead, the adrenaline rush seemed to make my brain work much faster, and I was able to absorb in clear detail several things at once.†   (source)
  • In that moment, I was definitely feeling healthy and whole, the Randy of old, powered no doubt by adrenaline and the thrill of a full house.†   (source)
  • When you're in the chase, the adrenaline pumps, minutes seem like seconds, and in your single-minded state you are for all intents and purposes a zombie, ignorant of everything around you and capable of nothing but checking out the lead.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline pumping, I dropped to the ground and felt the red dirt swooshing underneath my left hip.†   (source)
  • I could feel my adrenaline levels dropping.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline was pumping through my veins and my muscles were tense, as if my body was still waiting for the crash.†   (source)
  • I was an adrenaline junkie for sure.†   (source)
  • I cannot run away on the muscular effects of adrenaline, but I could taste fear in the back of my throat and feel its despairing weight in my slack limbs.†   (source)
  • There was maximum adrenaline inside that tin can on treads.†   (source)
  • She felt as if she'd been running on pure adrenaline since she woke up.†   (source)
  • A human geyser of adrenaline and testosterone, he had maintained this pitch from the first day of spring practice until this morning, the day before the team was scheduled to play its final game of the season.†   (source)
  • We lived on adrenaline and excitement.†   (source)
  • Really, he has only two emotions: sleeping and adrenaline overdrive.†   (source)
  • Our adrenaline pumped, our legs pumped, our arms pumped, our hearts pumped.†   (source)
  • I was really running on adrenaline by then; I couldn't eat the food that was offered, I think I had taken a sip of a Dr Pepper.†   (source)
  • When she locked the door to her compartment, she could feel that for the first time in two days, her adrenaline levels had returned to normal.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline shots to restart my heart.†   (source)
  • Talk about an adrenaline rush!†   (source)
  • My veins were coursing with adrenaline and anger, and I couldn't wait to take the field and get the game started.†   (source)
  • Hope shoots through my veins like adrenaline.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline edginess gnawed at her.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I am in adrenaline overdrive.†   (source)
  • I sped forward with the force of adrenaline.†   (source)
  • He could feel his body wanting to go faster, rush, adrenaline flooding his senses, but he knew they could be ambushed at any moment.†   (source)
  • But the notion that climbers are merely adrenaline junkies chasm a righteous fix is a fallacy, at least in the case of Everest.†   (source)
  • Caroline paused, the wild adrenaline rush of her meeting with David Henry suddenly gone, dissipating into the spring night like mist.†   (source)
  • My hands were still trembling, as if trying to shake out that last bit of adrenaline singing in my blood.†   (source)
  • You know how riding real fast in a car or a spectacular takeoff in a jet gives you an awesome rush of adrenaline?†   (source)
  • It hit her like a shot of adrenaline.†   (source)
  • The look on his face had my adrenaline surging through my body.†   (source)
  • I'm ready for that adrenaline rush ....with you.†   (source)
  • Whenever I've had to resort to adrenaline to the heart it has never worked, Hema said to herself.†   (source)
  • I feel a combination of relief and adrenaline sweeping through me.†   (source)
  • It was adrenaline, I guess.†   (source)
  • Cedric, ushered here mostly by adrenaline and faith, realizes he's now facing a living, breathing, credentialed counterpoint to his revered Bishop.†   (source)
  • Now that my adrenaline is fading, I'm beginning to realize how badly I'm hurt.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline carries him an entire spiral up, but then it's as if his body has realized what's happening, and he abruptly halts and dangerously sways backward.†   (source)
  • I was scared, confused, and running on adrenaline.†   (source)
  • Max stalked down the hall, adrenaline now racing through his body.†   (source)
  • Nor did I. At the moment adrenaline was our primary nutrient.†   (source)
  • The adrenaline of the initial"Can I do this?" period was definitely over, and the rest of my time in Danbury stretched ahead of me.†   (source)
  • As he walked closer and closer on Powell, his adrenaline surged, his heart pounded, almost out of control.†   (source)
  • He's an adrenaline junkie, and his psyche requires illicit excitement.†   (source)
  • The post-fight adrenaline has me literally trembling.†   (source)
  • Then Mavis's quick, flirtatious laugh had her adrenaline draining again.†   (source)
  • The problem with adrenaline, Makatsu's thin voice whispered, is that it makes your head weak.†   (source)
  • His bloodthirst had grown to obnoxious levels, and lately, just the scent of blood and adrenaline coursing through a group of humans' veins was enough to bring his fangs out and set his stomach rumbling.†   (source)
  • Raw fear—nerve-breaking, horror movie, chain-saw-carrying fear—pushed adrenaline through my body.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline snapped Mortenson back upright.†   (source)
  • My adrenaline surges, my training kicking in, telling me to attack the Augur, to rid myself of this threat.†   (source)
  • Her heart thumped wildly with fear-fueled adrenaline and rage.†   (source)
  • If not for the adrenaline flooding my system, the pain would've been totally debilitating.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline surged through Burnah.†   (source)
  • Wilton, whose adrenaline was flowing, said Mac was talking nonsense.†   (source)
  • A surge of adrenaline shot through him and his brain went on full alert.†   (source)
  • The adrenaline in her blood, the sharp pain in her fingers from climbing the chain-link fence, her heart pounding in her chest-the whole experience seemed absolutely real.†   (source)
  • He would feel completely alert — that would be adrenaline.†   (source)
  • Walking to the bar, the near-failure scared some adrenaline into me and I was able to pass the pull-ups without issue.†   (source)
  • Whatever adrenaline I had had moments before ebbed away.†   (source)
  • "We used a helium-neon laser," Cristian Arcega answered rapidly, keyed up on adrenaline.†   (source)
  • Mason didn't stop to think—he raced outside in an adrenaline rush and charged across the field to what was left of the plane, its fuselage ripped apart.†   (source)
  • The rage adrenaline is flooding my arms and legs, stiff with repressed energy.†   (source)
  • But get them out in the field in a combat exercise, or anything that gets them keyed up and full of adrenaline, and they're as explosive as a hatful of mercury fulminate.†   (source)
  • The incident in the lavatory had opened the stopcock on his supply of adrenaline, canceling the effects of the lulling surf and the two beers that he had drunk.†   (source)
  • My thoughts drift off with the last vestiges of my energy and adrenaline, leaving me with the all too familiar feeling of nausea I've come to know well.†   (source)
  • My adrenaline turned up a notch.†   (source)
  • Or, at least, adrenaline junkies.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline taking over, I recalled a fuzzy memory of a self-defense lesson I'd once attended with Ben.†   (source)
  • John says, "I'm not engineer educated, but I am an adrenaline junkie.†   (source)
  • My hackles rose, and the adrenaline tingles came into my extremities.†   (source)
  • It's adrenaline, they tell me.†   (source)
  • I woke up, I didn't know where I was or who I was with, I got panicky … adrenalin was released and I got short-winded.   (source)
  • Flooded with dread and adrenaline, I see darkness coming.†   (source)
    adrenaline = “fight or flight” stimulating hormone
  • I've been shaking like this for hours, it must be the adrenaline, my heart just won't slow down.†   (source)
  • There is a rush of adrenaline each time the jury is led in and seated.†   (source)
  • It lights up and I can feel the adrenaline in my blood, it's making me dizzy, a little bit sick, and it's making me buzz, as though I'm high.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline screamed through my system like a high note on an electric guitar.†   (source)
  • I felt blood and adrenaline pulsing through me, like I was ready to attack the rebels myself.†   (source)
  • All I knew was that my heart was pounding in my chest from the sudden rush of adrenaline.†   (source)
  • Thomas gasped for air, his chest heaving as adrenaline throbbed through his body.†   (source)
  • The wound in my shoulder throbs, but I hardly feel it through the pulse of adrenaline.†   (source)
  • Now that she had a full stomach, her adrenaline was fading.†   (source)
  • He felt the adrenaline rush through his body, fed by a paralyzing fear.†   (source)
  • "Have you been with me the entire time?" inquired Mack, a little ramped from the adrenaline rush.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline pulsed through my veins as the realization of danger slowly sank in.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno began to feel the fog of wonder and adrenaline dissipating.†   (source)
  • A surge of adrenaline surprised me; I must have gotten too used to falling.†   (source)
  • He leaned against the door frame, ignoring the kick of adrenaline the sight of her produced.†   (source)
  • With no real-world missions, I had gone cold turkey from adrenaline.†   (source)
  • Or I was a skydiving, drag-racing, adrenaline-fueled daredevil.†   (source)
  • My fists have been clenched and I realize I had mistaken adrenaline for nerves.†   (source)
  • "Where is he?" she demanded, leaping to her feet in a surge of frantic adrenaline.†   (source)
  • But I'm jacked up on adrenaline and euphoria.†   (source)
  • A second kick of adrenaline hit like an electric shock, and everything was suddenly very clear.†   (source)
  • Grouard demanded, feeling his adrenaline spike for a second time in the last thirty seconds.†   (source)
  • My head feels muddled, probably from exhaustion, but the adrenaline keeps me running.†   (source)
  • Your adrenaline and heart start pumping like crazy.†   (source)
  • They were driven by more than just religion and adrenaline, even more than blood lust.†   (source)
  • Henry brought the sedan to a stop and a flush of adrenaline went through Edgar.†   (source)
  • Then adrenaline surged through his body.†   (source)
  • Heart pounding, adrenaline burning through me, everyone is my enemy.†   (source)
  • Breath and fire and lungs seizing, releasing, adrenaline saving what was left.†   (source)
  • It would have been pain if adrenaline wasn't coursing through me like acid.†   (source)
  • When I rise, soaking wet, shaking with adrenaline, fear, strength, my eyes fly to Cal.†   (source)
  • I was giddy with joy, and adrenaline was pumping through my veins.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's not as heavy as he thought, or maybe he's on adrenaline overdrive.†   (source)
  • I don't feel like a nap this afternoon, there's still too much adrenaline.†   (source)
  • But I knew better, and a jolt of nervous adrenaline confirmed it.†   (source)
  • Her retina display began to panic, noting her increased levels of adrenaline, her racing pulse.†   (source)
  • We were all exhausted, but we were also hungry and buzzing with post-rainbow adrenaline.†   (source)
  • My body was weary and full of sour adrenaline.†   (source)
  • The adrenaline rushing through his body helped push away his fear—he just kept moving.†   (source)
  • In battle, of course, I was fine—when your adrenaline is pumped, you don't feel anything.†   (source)
  • His lungs strained for oxygen as the adrenaline doubled his heart rate.†   (source)
  • Veins surging with adrenaline, Clary staggered to her feet.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline pumping at full blast, the world seemed to decelerate around me.†   (source)
  • I run faster than I can possibly run, like I'm breathing adrenaline instead of air.†   (source)
  • He exaggerated a salute, feeling a rush of adrenaline, as he knew he'd just crossed a line.†   (source)
  • I turned around, the adrenaline letdown causing my knees to shake.†   (source)
  • I take a deep breath and adrenaline races through me.†   (source)
  • She reminded herself to breathe as adrenaline coursed through her veins.†   (source)
  • Now that I am safe, the adrenaline that propelled me here is fading, and the pain is getting worse.†   (source)
  • It was a tremendous adrenaline rush—you're low and fast.†   (source)
  • I imagine that the serum is liquid adrenaline rushing through my veins, making me strong.†   (source)
  • SPIKING LEVELS OF ADRENALINE, warned her control panel.†   (source)
  • Pulsing with adrenaline, Thomas drew his legs together and pulled them tight against his chest.†   (source)
  • Langdon was hit by a surge of weariness, the adrenaline alone no longer enough to keep him alert.†   (source)
  • Gladers fought, panic-induced adrenaline driving them on.†   (source)
  • It's not just the anticipation of solitude, though, it's the excitement, the adrenaline.†   (source)
  • That adrenaline and booze buzz I had earlier on would have been long gone.†   (source)
  • Thomas screamed, the pain like a burst of adrenaline through his blood.†   (source)
  • Not with so much adrenaline coursing through his veins.†   (source)
  • Food, sleep, and adrenaline have him feeling sober once more.†   (source)
  • Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies.†   (source)
  • The adrenaline seemed to enter his system as if he were hooked to a giant, invisible IV.†   (source)
  • After about an hour, my initial adrenaline rush wore off.†   (source)
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