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The soft heart is also a smart heart because it is not soft for every puny silly thing, but over the things that are matterful.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

The admiration of the French Romantics for the "accidented" and "matterful" English, Spanish, and German drama naturally encouraged experiment in this kind.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

The brief, "matterful" notes to his Specimens of the Old English Dramatists are the very quintessence of criticism,—the flower and fruit of years of thoughtful reading of the old English drama.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various