cockles of the heart
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Adapted from Dan Savage’s much darker “DJ’s Homeless Mommy,” set alight to warm the cockles of the heart and make s’mores over.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2019
In the end, the stage seems set for a true marriage of mathematics and letters, in a way the readers can only hope will warm the intercultural cockles of the heart of C. P. Snow.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The cockles of the heart, and the apple of the eye have always seemed absurd figures of speech to me," she then remarked, putting the unguent into her basket.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
And it's the quietest spoken word that reaches the inner cockles of the heart.
From Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)
For Knowledge to their ears her ample store, Rich with the latest news, does then impart, Whose source, when known, shall chill you to the core, And freeze the genial cockles of the heart.
From Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses by Kendall, John (AKA Dum-Dum)
