Crossword clues for heartstring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heartstring \Heart"string`\ (h[aum]rt"str[i^]ng`), n.
A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart.
--Shak.
Sobbing, as if a heartstring broke.
--Moore.
Wiktionary
n. (singular of heartstrings English)
Usage examples of "heartstring".
Prince my brother-in-law is one that tieth to his heartstrings the remembrance of past benefits.
What in the stablished world is mine, that am thus in a moment reived of him that was mine own heartstring, my brother, the might of mine arm, the chiefest citadel of my dominion?
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.