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They may be tugged at
Answer for the clue "They may be tugged at ", 12 letters:
heartstrings
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. your deepest feelings of love and compassion; "many adoption cases tug at the heartstrings"
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Heartstrings (; lit. You've Fallen for Me ) is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Park Shin-hye and Jung Yong-hwa . It aired on MBC from June 29 to August 19, 2011 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 15 episodes. Heartstrings is a youth ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES tug at sb's heart/heartstrings ▪ The sight of the puppies in the cages tugged at the women's hearts. ▪ Charity had felt something tug at her heart the moment she had first seen this cove. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Charlie Harris ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., originally literal, in old anatomy theory "the tendons and nerves that brace the heart;" from heart + string (n.). Transferred and figurative sense from 1590s.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete anatomy English) The tendons once thought to brace the heart. (15th-19th c.) 2 (context figuratively English) One's deepest emotions or inner feelings. (from 16th c.) 3 (context anatomy English) The cord-like tendons that connect ...
Usage examples of heartstrings.
He could now see the simply knotted heartstrings, glowing above the dead king, the sort he had come to associate with ghosts.
He could see a pair of immortal heartstrings, iron-colored, and Harka swept out, eager to meet them.
Vanno said, half aloud, and felt no longer the strange pulling at his heartstrings which for a moment had drawn him, too, under the influence.
The image alone pulled at her heartstrings, made her eyes shimmer with unshed tears.
Something had tugged at his heartstrings and he had known this valley would be home.
Charlie Harris was a shrewd street-seller whose appearance and demeanour tugged at the heartstrings of the compassionate.
You can pity the men who have woven From passion and appetite chains To coil with a terrible tension Around their heartstrings and brains.
Will there be any touch of sadness on the part of my mousme, or on my own, just a tightening of the heartstrings at the moment of our final farewell?
They had been through a nightmare and it showed, and it tore at his heartstrings to see it.
When the world rang with the tale of Arctic gold, and the lure of the North gripped the heartstrings of men, Carter Weatherbee threw up his snug clerkship, turned the half of his savings over to his wife, and with the remainder bought an outfit.
I knew in my breast that it was not right, but I was so set upon my desire and so strongly did my heartstrings pull me towards her whose white robe now fluttered on the slope of the Park Hill, that I never heeded the warning.
The DM should play up the starry-eyed, romantic aspects of Benedict's nature to pluck at the player characters' heartstrings.
If the stars, calling to his heartstrings, were indeed reminders of what the next day might bring, as Master Hatch'net had said, then surely the next day would not be so terrible.