Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Blood contained in the cavity of the heart, as distinguished from that in the vessels.
- noun Hence Life; essence; something very dear, precious, or vital to one's happiness: in this sense generally heart's blood.
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Examples
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I felt as though I could take the heart-blood out of everyone of them.
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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When I hold the hose pumping gas in my tank, I feel the flow throbbing with the heart-blood pulse of dead innocents. by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 30 diaries, 589 comments [29 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 4, 2008 at 2: 39: 05 PM
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I felt as though I could take the heart-blood out of everyone of them.
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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Then Sigurd went his ways and roasted it on a rod; and when the blood bubbled out he laid his finger thereon to essay it, if it were fully done; and then he set his finger in his mouth, and lo, when the heart-blood of the worm touched his tongue, straightway he knew the voice of all fowls, and heard withal how the wood-peckers chattered in the brake beside him
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The researchers used high-tech PET scans to measure the participants' heart-blood flow before and after they rode a stationary bike.
No Java Before Gym Robert Preidt for HealthDayNews 2006
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However, measurements taken immediately after exercise showed a slowdown in heart-blood flow after they'd taken the caffeine tablets, compared with their previous results.
No Java Before Gym Robert Preidt for HealthDayNews 2006
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As reported in the Jan. 17 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the caffeine did not affect heart-blood flow when the participants were inactive.
No Java Before Gym Robert Preidt for HealthDayNews 2006
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Thou wouldst have left thy dearest heart-blood there,
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Then [said the Abbot]: Our Lord Jesu Christ showed him unto you in the likeness of a soul that suffered great anguish for us, since He was put upon the cross, and bled His heart-blood for mankind: there was the token and the likeness of the Sangreal that appeared afore you, for the blood that the great fowl bled revived the chickens from death to life.
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Nefer jerked the blade out and Rastafa's heart-blood fountained after it.
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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