heart-free
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of heart-free
First recorded in 1740–50
Example Sentences
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In those happy days ere meeting Bessie he was heart-free and care-free.
From Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block by Standish, Burt L.
The bride did not live long, nor does the union seem to have been a love affair; as Rezanoff's infatuation with the daughter of a Spanish don later seemed to indicate a heart-free lover.
From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
What it is to be young, gay, and heart-free!
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various
He was rapidly approaching a frame of mind in which no sacrifice would be too great to be made, could he only be certain of winning Dorothy, heart-free, for his own.
From A Husband by Proxy by Steele, Jack
"Chance certainly, seems against your schemes and mine, my lord Cardinal," he said; "for that butterfly is heart-free and indolent, whilst the woman of forty is a queen."
From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
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