It is the steady accretion of detail that may yet be the most damaging factor in the battle for British hearts and minds.
It made a big impact on him and he realized, “Wow, there really is a Santa, at least in the hearts of some people.”
“Our hearts and our prayers are with you,” read a message on the accompanying card.
The pictures which would melt even the hardest of Republcian hearts were taken at the end of November.
That is to say, there is much longing in the hearts of Americans.
I am bound to him by ties stronger than usually bind the hearts of women.
"So much the more need that we enshrine her image in our own hearts," rejoined Plato.
No—ye could not say it: your hearts would choke your voices.
It wrung the hearts of all who had opportunities of personally observing it.
Poor Omar Ben was a sight to awaken pity, even in the stoniest of hearts.
Old English heorte "heart; breast, soul, spirit, will, desire; courage; mind, intellect," from Proto-Germanic *khertan- (cf. Old Saxon herta, Old Frisian herte, Old Norse hjarta, Dutch hart, Old High German herza, German Herz, Gothic hairto), from PIE *kerd- "heart" (cf. Greek kardia, Latin cor, Old Irish cride, Welsh craidd, Hittite kir, Lithuanian širdis, Russian serdce "heart," Breton kreiz "middle," Old Church Slavonic sreda "middle").
Spelling with -ea- is c.1500, reflecting what then was a long vowel, and remained when pronunciation shifted. Most of the figurative senses were present in Old English, including "intellect, memory," now only in by heart. Heart attack attested from 1875; heart disease is from 1864. The card game hearts is so called from 1886.
heart (härt)
n.
The chambered, muscular organ in vertebrates that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system.
A similarly functioning structure in invertebrates.
The hollow muscular organ that is the center of the circulatory system. The heart pumps blood throughout the intricate system of blood vessels in the body.
noun
A tablet of an amphetamine, esp Dexedrine2 (1960s+ Narcotics)
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