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Example sentences for "his heart"

  • These are all airs upon Pan's pipe; he it was who gave them breath in the exultation of his heart, and gleefully modulated their outflow with his lips and fingers.

  • He recognises with his intelligence that this thing and that thing is beautiful, while in his heart of hearts he has to confess that it is not beautiful for him.

  • His heart, which has been ticking accurate seconds for the last year, gives a bound and begins to beat high and irregularly in his breast.

  • His heart seemed to have stopped its beating.

  • The affair with the blacks still rankled in his heart.

  • In his heart was a great desire to follow the man and slay him; but ever there rose in his consciousness the thought: She loves him.

  • In his heart of hearts he hoped to meet the king ape who had driven him from the amphitheater.

  • But the father of men and gods was forming another scheme in his heart, to beget one to defend against destruction gods and men who eat bread.

  • And he offered very many gifts, and greatly he desired in his heart to be the husband of rich-haired Helen.

  • And after golden-haired Menelaus he offered the greatest gifts of all the suitors, and very much he desired in his heart to be the husband of Argive Helen with the rich hair.

  • But Zeus, whose wisdom is everlasting, saw and failed not to perceive the trick, and in his heart he thought mischief against mortal men which also was to be fulfilled.

  • But Zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because Prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men.

  • But still, methinks, it must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain, as this poor woman Hester is, than to cover it up in his heart.

  • They grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done better to confess during his lifetime.

  • He bears no letter of infamy wrought into his garment, as thou dost, but I shall read it on his heart.

  • Marquis, I am in despair that God should not have invented some nobler way for a man to confirm the gift of his heart than by the manifestation of prodigiously vulgar desires.

  • And if a man is attracted to a woman, and his senses are as quick to feel pleasure as his heart is full of love, such a kiss, though chaste in appearance, may conjure up a terrific storm.

  • He had leant his face on his hands, unable at first to bear the intolerable emotion that surged like a whirlpool in his heart, when that well-known voice vibrated under the arcading, with the sound of the sea for accompaniment.

  • Keola went up the beach, which was of shining sand and coral, strewn with singular shells; and he thought in his heart— “How do I not know this beach?

  • He has been preaching upon the love of God; but that was not in his heart, it was between his teeth.

  • But this day of all days he made sure in his heart of some discovery.

  • He has been preaching against me, but that was not in his heart.

  • As for Keawe himself, he could not walk in the chambers without singing, his heart was so enlarged; and when ships sailed by upon the sea, he would fly his colours on the mast.

  • It had been the yearning of his heart to find something to anchor on, to cling to--for some place which he could call admirable.

  • He looked over the town into the country beyond, to the trees which screened her whose presence had at first been the support of his heart, and whose loss was now a maddening torture.

  • He walked straight up to Mademoiselle Marguerite, caught her in his long arms, and pressed her to his heart, brushing her face with his huge mustaches as he pretended to kiss her.

  • Valorsay drew a long breath, as if a great burden had been lifted from his heart, and his eyes sparkled with apparent delight.

  • This word sent all Pascal's blood bounding to his heart.

  • But he was intensely irritated to hear his client foolishly chanting the paeons of victory, while he was compelled to conceal his grief at the loss of his forty thousand francs, deep in the recesses of his heart.

  • The attention of the entire party was concentrated on Pascal; and he, with despair in his heart, followed the movements of the cards, which were passing from hand to hand, and fast approaching him again.

  • He felt as if he had never loved her as in this moment, when she seemed to be most in need of him, and an overwhelming tenderness took possession of his heart.

  • It was toward midnight, just as the company was moving out to supper, that he caught the glance of a pair of dark-blue eyes, which suddenly drove the blood to his cheeks and hastened the beating of his heart.

  • Women have wonderfully keen senses for phenomena of that kind, and it is an illusion if any one imagines, as our Norseman did, that he has locked his secret securely in the hidden chamber of his heart.

  • The hard, benumbed look in Ralph's face thawed in the warmth of her presence, and her words, though stern, touched a secret spring in his heart.

  • The hopeless strangeness of everything he saw, instead of filling him with rapture as he had once anticipated, Sent a cold shiver to his heart.

  • He went, somewhat staggered, doubting in his heart that he was over- bold.

  • I was told he was, in his heart, a good fellow, and the enemy of no one but himself.

  • As he observed her and wondered at these discoveries of his, the ghost of a delight he had thought forever dead stirred in his heart, in his fancy.

  • It was absurd to be angry with a young man who confided his secrets to the first stranger he met in the streets, and placed his hand on his heart whenever he mentioned the name of his betrothed.

  • The strange thing was, that in his heart he felt a certainty that they were alive.

  • For a long time a great curiosity had been pulling at his heart-strings: a curiosity of which he was dimly ashamed.

  • He will feel a desire to press it to his heart, if he has such a thing.

  • Not even the assurance of his union with the woman of his heart, which after all had met but the skeleton of his de- sires, gave him the acute satisfaction of this sud- den fulfilment of his self-imposed mission.

  • The naturalist, whose sharp nose was always lifted as if in protest against oversight and ready to pounce upon and penetrate the least of mysteries, bowed with his hand on his heart, and translated for the benefit of the officers.

  • All his old love seemed suddenly accumulated in his heart, and he determined to go and see her at once, as he had not long to stay.

  • His heart at the thought came up into his throat.

  • He had known, of course, that deep down in his heart he loved her, always had loved her, and always would love her.

  • His heart, she was sure, had gone where it ought to have gone in the first place--to Alice.


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