heart-root

Gawaine, ye must remember how ofttimes Sir Launcelot hath rescued the king and the queen; and the best of us all had been full cold at the heart-root had not Sir Launcelot been better than we, and that hath he proved himself full oft.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

I will uphold the curve of her eyelashes, for it tickleth my very heart-root to think of her.

The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

I will uphold the curve of her eyelashes, for it tickleth my very heart-root to think of her.

The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

I will uphold the curve of her eyelashes, for it tickleth my very heart-root to think of her.

The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

I will uphold the curve of her eyelashes, for it tickleth my very heart-root to think of her.

The White Company 1890

Goldburg; and as we drew near to them on a day, he said to me that he was glad to the heart-root that none had cheapened me at the said market; and when I asked him wherefore, he fell a weeping as he rode beside me, and said: 'Yet would God that I had never taken thee.'

The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865

"_Milisent Louvaine_," saith Aunt _Joyce_, "if thou be alive twenty years hence, thou shalt thank God from thy very heart-root that thou wert stayed on that road to-day."

Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Had it been our _Milly_ (which I do thank God from mine heart-root it is not) I think I would not have been thus towards her.

Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Also, brother Sir Agravaine, said Sir Gawaine, ye must remember how ofttimes Sir Launcelot hath rescued the king and the queen; and the best of us all had been full cold at the heart-root had not Sir Launcelot been better than we, and that hath he proved himself full oft.

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