Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vital drop; a drop of one's heart's blood.
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Examples
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Every word of that recital must draw with it a life-drop from my heart, for I shall speak to you of the past, and recollection to me is agony.
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Drawing his little sword from its sheath, he pricked the baby's heart till one red drop, the life-drop, stained the steel.
Fairy Book Sophie May 1869
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Drink love in each life-drop that flows from thy breast.
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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a Princess of Austria, and every life-drop is akin to emperors and kings.
I.5 1826
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