" Strange how Our Square binds the heartstrings of those who have once lived in it!

The pains of hunger in myself were becoming insupportable; my teeth gnashed against each other, and worms seemed gnawing my heartstrings.

" "In that case," he replied still more firmly, "the shrieks of the little creatures when Philip gets 'em rend my heartstrings.

Take, then, this feeble tribute; 'tis thine own; Thy fingers sweep my trembling heartstrings o'er, Arouse to harmony each buried tone, And bid its wakened music sleep no more.

What 's the use of tying your heartstrings around a man, and then have ambition slip the knot and leave you all a-quiver?

But what twitched his very heartstrings was the dimple that came and went with that pathetic little twisted smile of hers.