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Definition of Heartthrobs
1. heartthrob [n] - See also: heartthrob
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heartthrobs
Literary usage of Heartthrobs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1880)
"As there are only so many heartthrobs per minute, only so much blood sent to the
brain per diem, only so much thinking possible, therefore all the thought ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1880)
"... is the soul; through it pass all the heartthrobs or vibrations generated
between the back and the belly; on its position depends mellowness, tightness, ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Most dear and memorable of all those nightingale melodies, those resonant
heartthrobs wrought into a divine music, those ecstasies of love and grief and ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"How shall I bid thy fainting soul rejoice, Nor mar the counsel by mine own
heartthrobs ? Love, my love teaches me a certain way, So, if thy dark hour come, ..."
5. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1913)
"Here good atmosphere instilled good blood, regular heartthrobs, sound bodies,
and noble aspirations; while isolation fostered economy, independence, ..."
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