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Definition of Heartburns
1. heartburn [n] - See also: heartburn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heartburns
Literary usage of Heartburns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"SONG II. In WD the last line in each stanta is repeated. That text also furnishes
the following variants: (8) heartburns ; (11) ..."
2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"... and whereas an Irishman will sometimes imbibe a half- dozen tumblers of the
poison, two glasses will be often found to cause headaches, heartburns, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1834)
"... and play the part of a Mahommedan ; I appear happy, but my heartburns for my
native land, where I would serve in the most despotic army with gladness. ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... and whereas an Irishman will sometimes imbibe a half-dozen tumblers of the
poison, two glasses will be often found to cause headaches, heartburns, ..."
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