My altar will fall to pieces, and its ruins will crush my own heart.
Then, solemnly and in my own heart, I renewed the promise I had made the dead, and as far as in me lay have I kept it, Mabel, through thy life and mine!
I do not love you, Evelyn Erle; and, if I were not afraid of the anger of God and my own heart, I would let myself hate you, and strike you.
I, who had declared myself no sophist, knew later that I had deceived my own heart, which spoke out so truthfully in dreams of sleep, and refused to be silenced in the dead hour of night, however I might stifle its suggestions by day.
The thing was after the earl's own heart; he delighted in making a fool of a fellow-mortal.
He may be a saint, but he cannot be a man after God's own heart.
I could almost hear the beating of my own heart, and the blood surging through my temples sounded like blows from a hammer.
But there was no love in my own heart, nothing but loathing for the foul Thing which had taken Lucy's shape without her soul.
He stopped, his voice was breaking, and I do not know if rage or terror predominated in my own heart.
I have not faltered in giving every thought of my own heart in this cause.
Well, it's best as it is, and I am better pleased to be as we are, trusting all to a generous son's own heart.
Oh, well and truly Didst thou say, father, I relied too much On my own heart.
I will torture my own heart; but thine will I crush to atoms!
To-day, for the first time, dost thou refer Me to myself, and forcest me to make Election between thee and my own heart.
Glorious as the setting sun, will I this day descend from the pinnacle of my greatness; my grandeur shall expire with my love, and my own heart be the only sharer of my proud exile!
Sunshine again out-of-doors; and as clear and true a reflection of it in my own heart as I can hope to have just at this time.
When I had stepped out five one way and four the other, and was down on my knees on the center bunch, as true as I sit on this chair I could hear my own heart beating so loud that it quite frightened me.
But in the depths of my own heart I trust that I may see with the eyes of the King of Rome," replied Josepha with a smile.
Perhaps you are right, Binder, for in sooth my laugh echoes gloomily within the walls of my own heart.
But since I have seen you, I need no prompting save that of my own heart.
I would rather melt my own heart's blood into gold than tell you so; but indeed, dear lady, if you refuse the emperor's gift you wilt be without a kreutzer in your purse.
I shall bury it within the recesses of my own heart, and there it shall remain.
For there is one thing that is weaker than a discovered devil, and that is my own heart.
I always knew you were a man after my own heart, but I didn't know you were a man of genius until this minute.
And when looking as closely as I can at my own heart in the matter of ill-will, what do I find--and what will you find?
And I would leave the church even of my fathers, and become anything as far as churches go, if I could get a minister who held my face close and ever closer up to my own heart.
For the room all last week and all this day was your own heart, and not and never this house of stone and lime made with men's hands.
The consolation Charlotte can bring to an invalid I experience from my own heart, which suffers more from her absence than many a poor creature lingering on a bed of sickness.
Then I read a passage in an ancient poet, and I seem to understand my own heart.
Many, with tears in their eyes, exclaimed, "John, I only wish that I possessed the joy in my own heart that I can see written in your face!
John had at last become a man after God's own heart.
It has passed my lips for the last time, and all shall be locked again within my own heart.
Yet, should I follow the dictates of my own heart, I would not give one inch!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "own heart" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
