Dead Heart

noun

1. the Dead Heart
   the remote interior of Australia

Word History and Origins

Origin of Dead Heart¹

C20: from the title The Dead Heart of Australia (1906) by J. W. Gregory (1864–1932), British geologist

Example Sentences

But a hasty examination showed them, to their horror, that the girl was dead—heart failure, presumably.

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She wondered whether the solemn bell that once called its flock to worship had become as mute as her own dead heart.

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His repinings and upbraidings are manifestly all pointed at a dead heart, not at a dead queen.

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We don't want to live forever like lumps of ice circling around a dead heart.

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But he was convinced that in taking Marynia he was not taking a dead heart.

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