heart-free
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of heart-free
First recorded in 1740–50
Example Sentences
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"A child, Elsin, heart-free and capricious, contradictory, imperious, and—and overyoung——" "O Carus!"
From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
He had been heart-free, a bystander in the world’s affairs.
From The River Prophet by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
Oh mother dear!" laughed Shirley with heart-free ring to her voice, "did you think you had a young fool for a daughter?
From The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill
"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 Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
"I have heard Dr. Mackey declare several times that he was heart-free, that he had never cared for any woman, and consequently had never married."
From Young Captain Jack The Son of a Soldier by Edward Stratemeyer
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