Dead Heart

noun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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