Crossword-Solution: HEARTSTRING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heartstring | n. | A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “HEARTSTRING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Imaginary thing to tug on | 1 answer |
| It's not real, but it's still tugged on | 1 answer |
| Lothario's list of lasses? | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ADSLRO
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with HEARTSTRING (5)
The King's a Bawcock, and a Heart of Gold, a Lad of Life, an Impe of Fame, of Parents good, of Fist most valiant: I kisse his durtie shooe, and from heartstring I loue the louely Bully.
And the fellow can talk if he would--has humour, too, if one could get it out; and eloquence, could I but touch the right string, the heartstring.
Each gradation of emotion was rendered with an ease, an art, an expression, that made every heartstring vibrate.
Hallow with praise the wheeling days Until the cord goes slack, Until the very heartstring frays, Until the stiffening back Can ply no more; keep then the door, And, thankful in the sun, Watch you the same unending war Ontaken by your son.
Yet at the sight of blood on his forehead, her voice came, and she cried in a tone which seemed to tell of a breaking heartstring: "My children!" "Don't be frightened, mama; Crispin stayed at the convent." "At the convent? He stayed at the convent? Living?" The child raised his eyes to hers.
Quotes with HEARTSTRING (1)
While the Saint, when it was necessary to play the part, could assume an aspect of proud or unprincipled poverty that would evoke a responsive twang from any normal heartstring, his usual appearance, fortunately or unfortunately, suggested a person who was so far on the other side of having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth that he must have been seriously shocked when he first learned that gold spoons were not standard issue.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1987–2009).