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  • In that plot line, Salome is the bad-hearted twin sister of Queen Taramis.

    Rose McGowan Cast In Conan… Is This a Red Sonja Cross-Over? | /Film 2010

  • In that plot line, Salome is the bad-hearted twin sister of Queen Taramis.

    Rose McGowan Cast In Conan… Is This a Red Sonja Cross-Over? | /Film 2010

  • After sundry rebuffs he at last found the needed person (December 1801) in his next-door neighbour, Mrs. Clairmont, a widow with a son and a daughter — "a clever, bustling, second-rate woman, glib of tongue and pen, with a temper undisciplined and uncontrolled; not bad-hearted, but with a complete absence of all the finer sensibilities" (MARSHALL).

    Biography in the DNB 2010

  • And Hopkins has a fiery intensity that's equally well-suited to her down-and-out lady, willfully shedding the respectability of her past to become a cheating, bad-hearted "harpy."

    Barbary Coast Ed Howard 2009

  • But I will not push this notion so far as it might be carried; because, if propagated, it might be of unsocial or unnatural consequence; since women of virtue would perhaps be more liable to suffer by the mistrusts and caprices or bad-hearted and foolish-headed husbands, than those who can screen themselves from detection by arts and hypocrisy, to which a woman of virtue cannot have recourse.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • If he had been naturally bad-hearted he might at that moment have become a criminal; but evil was not natural to

    The Inn 2006

  • He had no conscience, no heart, no principle, though no one could have called him positively a bad-hearted man.

    The Jew and other stories 2006

  • He was an ill-tempered, bad-hearted man, clever enough, but without principle; and he was continually guilty of the great sin of speaking evil of the woman whose name he should have been anxious to protect.

    Tales of all countries 2004

  • The being whose coming had been prophesied for thousands of years (mostly by the Manni-folk, and usually in frightened whispers), the being who would grow to be half-human and half-god, the being who would oversee the end of humanity and the return of the Prim ... that being had finally arrived as a naive and bad-hearted child who was now dying from a bellyful of poisoned horsemeat.

    The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

  • But though he was thoughtless, he was not bad-hearted.

    The Grey Fairy Book 2003

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