tobacco heart

Example Sentences

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There was too much officious paternalism in the air, too many admonitions and not enough lightness of heart—of tobacco heart if necessary.

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Then, when he has sown his wild oats, perhaps he'll come to her, at his own good pleasure, and lay at her feet what he has achieved—a pleasant smattering of things generally talked about, a comprehensive intimacy with things generally not talked about, a tobacco heart, and a set of nerves which make him unfit for publication three days in the week.

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The "irritable heart," the "tobacco heart," a life of promise impaired or blighted.

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What do we mean by "tobacco heart"?

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By a tobacco heart it was meant that his heart was so badly affected that it did not perform its action regularly and properly.

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