pale-hearted
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Take her home with you, and live hour after hour with the pale-hearted disgrace you call your daughter.
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- Dispirited; cowardly; craven. Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. 85.
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Take her home with you, and live hour after hour with the pale-hearted disgrace you call your daughter.
— A Double Story -
Mercutio calls her “a pale-hearted wench,” and Romeo says she did not “grace for grace and love for love allow,” like
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 -
Thou shalt not live; that I may tell pale-hearted Fear it lies, and sleep in spite of thunder. "
— Tales from Shakespeare -
The moon is the whole pale-hearted rose,
— Lundy's Lane and Other Poems -
Ericson slept composedly, and his deep, steady breathing seemed to tell pale-hearted fear it lied.
— The Dictator
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