Word: heart
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just a question of time before the jesters lost heart, but they had one more ace in the hole. With a shrieking Indian warery they set out for the Varsity field looking for men to plug their gaps. They were unable to corral the services of E. Ingalls, U. Lupien, and others on which their hearts were set, but they did succeed in getting pointers on the national pastime by smiling Fred Mitchell himself. It made no difference, though, and the losers trudged home wiser men, as the poet says...
...Healey pitched all the way for the Crimson, allowing the Bruins twelve hits over the distance. After Harvard had tied the score in the eighth, however, Big Tom seemed to take heart and did not allow a trace of a bingle in the last two frames...
...last event, the 11 contestants duelled with pistols. Two by two, they marched away from their paper effigies and at ten paces turned and fired, the one at the heart of the other's figure. Hall sent five leaden pellets through the carboard heart of Hinckley's model in the final thereby winning the meet...
...sound of grinding chain struck his ears and the Vagabond turned to look at the railway. His boat was setting down stern-first into the water now, easily, smoothly, gently, like a thing alive and yet afraid of violent exertion. The Vagabond rose and walked shoreward, his heart, full of joy. The days of winter were over, his duties done for a spell, his heart and his mind and his senses all keen to go down...
...reviewers, who rarely write novels, British book reviewers turn novelists almost as naturally as cocoons turn into moths. While this metamorphosis seldom produces a first-rate novel, it does produce, from plain readers' viewpoint, a pleasing bulk of readable fiction. With their ears continually close to readers' hearts, no one learns better than book reviewers that the warmest heart beats are stimulated by a readable story, lively plot, colorful atmosphere, easy prose, a minimum of literary pioneering. Thus informed, British reviewers, with a better average than most, turn out best-sellers as expertly as a veteran bookkeeper twirls...