His heart ceased beating, he closed his eyes and leaned upon the table.

An agony of indecision passed across her heart-shaped face, causing Malcolm's heart to cease beating.

His heart surely was going to stop working entirely; he could feel it preparing to cease beating.

Isabel knew her heart had ceased beating because now it shuddered into action again, racing so fast that she began to feel faint.

Unfortunately, the heart had ceased beating.

He felt himself kneel on the cold stone floor, so consumed by awe he was certain his heart would cease beating.

Her heart leaped and then seemed to cease beating.

For those who were celebrating (most of them young), it was as if something had been definitely, gloriously shattered when Augusto Pinochet's bleak and unrepentant heart ceased beating.

He had spent the whole night at the bedside of the Abbé Edgeworth, fighting a stubborn fight against a tired heart, which threatened any moment to cease beating.

Her heart seemed to cease beating.