heart-free
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of heart-free
First recorded in 1740–50
Example Sentences
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"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
"A child, Elsin, heart-free and capricious, contradictory, imperious, and—and overyoung——" "O Carus!"
From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
If Rhoda Polly was heart-free, that was certainly not my fault.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
She had done her best, but had I been still heart-free I never could have married her.
From Moods by Louisa May Alcott
Though he had travelled over the Islands and had been well received everywhere, yet he was heart-free, and said he would never marry, but wait untrammelled till his time for action should come.
From Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the Kilohana Art League by W. N. Armstrong
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