“Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death, / And in his eies the furies of his heart, / That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng, / And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.”

“Calm and deep peace in this wide air, ⁠These leaves that redden to the fall ⟳; ⁠And in my heart, if calm at all, If any calm, a calm despair: […]”

“The team lost, but they showed a lot of heart.”

“Eve, recovering heart, replied.”

“The expelled nations take ⟳ heart, and when they fled from one country, invaded another.”

“"We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program ⟳ in Des Moines.”

“The result ⟳ still leaves Wales bottom of the group but in better heart for Tuesday night's trip ⟳ to face ⟳ England at Wembley, who are now outright leaders after their 3-0 win ⟳ in Bulgaria.”

“The heart from the home team was immense. Some of them were out on their feet before the end ⟳, but they dug in, throwing themselves in front of shots and crosses, surviving.”

“Both theſe unhappy Soils the Swain forbears, / And keeps a Sabbath of alternate Years: / That the ſpent Earth may gather heart again; / And, better'd by Ceſſation, bear ⟳ the Grain.”

“Listen ⟳, dear heart, we must go now.”

“My King, my Jove, I speak ⟳ to thee, my heart!”

“Awake ⟳, dear heart, awake ⟳. Thou hast slept well./Awake ⟳.”

“Certain unscrupulous men may call ⟳ upon you here in your dressing-room. They will lavish you with flowers, with compliments, with phials of Hungary water and methuselahs of the costliest champagne. You must be wary of such men, my hearts, they are not to be trusted.”

“I know ⟳ almost every Beatles song by heart.”

“[…] I would outstare the sternest eyes that look ⟳, / Outbrave the heart most daring on earth, / Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, / Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,[…]”

“"Aw. Thank ⟳ you." The Cherub kissed the air between them and sent a small cluster of tiny red hearts at her.”

“That is the heart of the matter ⟳”

“The wood at the heart of a tree is the oldest.”

“Buddhists believe ⟳ that suffering is right at the heart of all life.”

“At last ⟳ she spoke in a low voice, hesitating slightly, nevertheless going with incisive directness into the very heart of the problem.”

“The narrow streets that twist ⟳ and turn ⟳ through the compact heart of Dent are surfaced with cobbles which, in the absence of pavements, spread ⟳ right across from doorstep to doorstep.”

“The heart of the modern city is T’ien-an-men Square, one of the largest — if not the largest — square in the world, created expressly in the Fifties on the ashes of the old “Tartar city,” an agglomeration of small and unassuming low grey houses, inhabited by the populace that was once excluded from the “Forbidden City.””

“Arcelia Silva Martinez: Watch ⟳ out!/Arcelia Silva Martinez: We've got geth in the tower./Fai Dan: Protect ⟳ the heart of the colony!”

“Norwich's attack centred on a front pair of Steve Morison and Grant Holt, but Younes Kaboul at the heart of the Tottenham defence dominated in the air.”

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