If heartstrings be but tuned aright Sweet melodies we hear; If strung with envy and deceit, The tone is doleful, drear.
Then and there Miss Theodosia's heartstrings throbbed unmercifully; she could not do anything with them; they would throb.
There were her heartstrings at their odd little twitching again!
She felt pleasant little tweaks at her heartstrings as if small grimy hands were ringing them, playing a tender little tune.
There was no choice, now, but to bear the pang of whatever heartstrings were snapt asunder, and that illusive torment (like the ache of a limb long ago cut off) by which a past mode of life prolongs itself into the succeeding one.
If their heartstrings were ever intertwined, the knot had been adjudged an entanglement, and was now violently broken.
It was Michel who spoke, and there was that in the sound of his voice that set Lucien's heartstrings vibrating.
She smiled up at him, and her sweet trustfulness drew his sagging heartstrings suddenly taut.
The tug at his heartstringsbrought a moan to his lips.
And yet, as often as such thought recurred to him he would try to choke it back, to bar his mind against it, lest the pull at his heartstrings snap them asunder.
The soft voice was close to his ear, and every breath swept over his heartstrings and made them vibrate.
I do not know whom you mean," he said, though his heartstrings thrummed within him.
Mitsos thought of the white wall, and his heartstrings throbbed within him.
These mingling odours, suggested to the senses rather than apprehended by them, mounted to Mary's brain, and set her heartstrings quivering with unknown emotions sweet as pleasure and keen as pain.
Lydie could not help noting with a slight tightening of her heartstrings with what alacrity he obeyed.
Sobs were choking her, an intolerable anguish wrung her heartstrings to that extent, that if she had had the power, she would have wounded him physically, as she hoped that she had done now mentally.
Robin Hood strung his bow and took his place with never a word, albeit his heartstrings quivered with anger and loathing.
No man could look into his face and not feel his heartstrings tickled by the merriment of their look.
Oh, said he nought, but did he this: Thrice on my lips did he press a kiss, And my heartstrings shrunk with an awful bliss, And the shrill wind sighed a straining.
More than one rough adventurer of the North felt his heartstrings draw closer and experienced vague yearnings for the sunnier pastures of the Southland, where life promised something more than a barren struggle with cold and death.
And when, as her train pulled out, Honora bade him goodby, she felt the tug at her heartstrings which comes at parting with an old friend.
A man, of many parts from beasts derived, 7 And then stole fire from heaven, to animate 8 His work, for which he was by Jove deprived 9 Of life himself, and heartstrings of an eagle rived.
Let me inform you, love, you got my old heartstrings buddy in some decided doo-doo.
That part of it was a beautiful experience, one that pulled at my heartstrings more strongly than I'd ever imagined something like that could.
Held all his heartstrings in her small white hand; His youth, and power, and majesty were hers, And not his own.
It meant the tearing out of his very heartstrings which had found root at a woman's feet.
But even whilst the heartstrings were torn by the ruthless hand of passion, it seemed as if--when the man had finished speaking--the magic words had already left upon the soul their impress of infinite peace.
This is farewell, my dear, dear heart, even as my hand pens the word the dawn around me turns to the likeness of the night, and it is peopled with all the sorrows that wear out the heartstrings slowly, one by one.
No wonder that our heartstringsglowed within us like a smelted lode Whence Kobolds welded Durandal; and like one man we ran or rode Forth.
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.
What cunning tune can she have played upon your heartstrings that you should espouse her cause with so much fervour?
Stonor lay listening with bated breath, as if terrified of losing that which tore his heartstrings to hear.
Of her features he was aware at first only of a beaming, wistful smile that plucked at his heartstrings with a strange sharpness.
It was a positive wrench to the heartstrings to leave her in May, and take our course leisurely northward.
There'll be just you and I and a few others to call the rest of our people until they hear and value and work," he said as he settled me against him so that the twain chants of our heartstrings became one.
The blow in the apple orchard and the purple plumes on the lilac bushes looked less brilliant in hue, but the tune on my heartstrings kept up a note of pure bravado.
Then the chant on my heartstrings speeded me up to white-washing all the chicken paraphernalia on the place, and I dropped corn behind Rufus' plow for a whole day, even if it was to produce food for the swine.
Yes, a Romney herb-pot is better," I said, as a strange chant began to play itself on my heartstrings with me alone for a breathless audience.
But Nome grows upon one; and by the end of a week it had drawn my heartstrings around it as no orderly, conventional town could do.
Music in Alaska brings the thought of home; and it is the thought of home that plays upon the heartstrings of the North.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heartstrings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: being; bones; bosom; breast; esprit; guts; heart; soul; spirit; viscera
