hearts

British

/ hɑːts /

noun

Also called: Black Maria. (functioning as singular) a card game in which players must avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades

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She added: "Your two sisters and big brother will always love and miss you to infinity... you will always and forever be in our hearts."

From BBC

Could their future be united, but this time in a good way, joined not by bondage but by loving hearts and shared Mvskoke values?

From Literature

Instead she’s gone, and this weekend her family came with moist eyes and broken hearts to her funeral at the First Presbyterian Church in her hometown of Yorktown, N.Y.

From The Wall Street Journal

Eden says she hopes “it’s because our content, and the way we deliver it, is able to touch hearts.”

From Los Angeles Times

Pulling her closer, we embrace, her head resting on my chest, and in silence, we breathe our scent and hear the beating of our hearts.

From Los Angeles Times

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