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  • But she was really going to find heartease and because at Grandma's she would hear oftenest the name that now had the power to quicken her heart beats and bring her a pain that was strangely edged with joy.

    Green Valley Katharine Reynolds

  • I don't deserve that it should bring me the heartease which used to come.

    Everyman's Land 1889

  • According to etiquette, he should never have addressed her but in a vein of persiflage, and with a smile which indicated his perfect heartease and her bad taste.

    The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

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