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Examples
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Cadman, Ellis, and Dick Hackerbody were in comfortable places of retirement, just under the combing of the hedge; all waiting for a whistle, yet at leisure to enjoy the whisper, the murmur, or even the sigh, of a genuine piece of “sweet-hearting.”
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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Their earliest citation was from an 1859 book by the English journalist George Augustus Sala: “A sly kiss, and a squeeze…known to our American cousins who are great adepts at sweet-hearting under the generic name of canoodling.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Their earliest citation was from an 1859 book by the English journalist George Augustus Sala: “A sly kiss, and a squeeze…known to our American cousins who are great adepts at sweet-hearting under the generic name of canoodling.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Their earliest citation was from an 1859 book by the English journalist George Augustus Sala: “A sly kiss, and a squeeze…known to our American cousins who are great adepts at sweet-hearting under the generic name of canoodling.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Their earliest citation was from an 1859 book by the English journalist George Augustus Sala: “A sly kiss, and a squeeze…known to our American cousins who are great adepts at sweet-hearting under the generic name of canoodling.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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He and Elizabeth Russell were great cronies, all their lives, but they never had any notion of sweet-hearting.
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Marget and I had learned this in the school of sweet-hearting, and now we knew it in the joy of confiding words.
The Black Colonel James Milne 1908
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He and Elizabeth Russell were great cronies, all their lives, but they never had any notion of sweet-hearting.
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The psychology of a bevy of village lovers is conveyed in a lively sweet-hearting dance.
The Art of the Moving Picture Vachel Lindsay 1905
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Steam has greatly revolutionized Jack's sweet-hearting.
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887
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