Meaning of heartspent | Babel Free

Definitions

Having experienced the strongest emotion possible.

Examples

“On and on we crept, two beggars humping toward the moonlit house, and dreamt that spring came full of heartspent hope, a winter deadman shadowing the unthawed pond.”

“Pretty soon they were in the sack, and that first time, each new time, their lovemaking was a frenzied and violent offering of hope; heartspent like runners at the tape, they flung themselves forward into a faint of reconciliation— body, saliva, sweat, all—all.”

“Until a thunderous crash onto its trivet of fragile bone Tangled and twisted its right foot in a somehow fashion Of limp unwillingness, no longer Sir Francis of Drakedom But a wretched refugiado which might have been earlier a Leander then heartspent, failing the Hellespont of desire”

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