Example Sentences

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Grace, finish, refinement, accuracy of drawing, richness of coloring, all that merely tended towards perfection and execution, while the simplicity and single-heartedness of conception died away more and more.

From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny

She was so sure of herself, so happy in her single-heartedness that she terrified me.

From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John

When she finds out that Valence did for love of her what she thought was done for loyalty alone to her, she is a little revolted; her single-heartedness is disappointed.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

It is in watching the single-heartedness of that young girl that I, an old man, hackneyed and hardened as I am, become trustful and hopeful of others.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

He was alive to the compliment to his acknowledged good looks, conveyed in this speech, but he was not able to appreciate the single-heartedness that prompted it.

From Tales for Fifteen by Cooper, James Fenimore