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Meaning: (idiomatic,especially ofhearts)Tosharethe samefeelings.1851August,“N. P. W.”, “A Love Letter, Supposed to have been Written for the ‘Home Journal’”, in Henry Bacon, editor,The Ladies’ Repository, volume XX, Boston, Mass.: Published by A. Tompkins, 38Cornhill, published1852,→OCLC,page63, column 2:Thou, too, delightest in the freshness and the bloom; thine eye follows and answers mine in its admiration of the beautiful, and our heartsbeat as oneto the music and gladness of nature.1867December 14, “Match-making”, inThe Round Table: A Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Society, and Art, volume VI, number151, New York, N.Y.: The Round Table Association, 132Nassau Street,→OCLC,page393:It is all very fine to talk about love in a cottage, two souls with but a single thought, two hearts thatbeat as one, and all that sort of thing; but in any cottage that love wouldn't turn up his nose at there is very substantial rent to pay, and, even waiving the usual contingences, at least two mouths to be filled, that the most perfect singleness of thought, the most thorough union of hearts, can never make one.[1890?],W[illiam] C[owper] Prime, “The Cross is Lost”, inHoly Cross: A History of the Invention, Preservation, and Disappearance of the Wood Known as the True Cross, London:Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188Fleet Street,→OCLC,page111:TheDeus vultof the crusaders was no longer uttered with one voice from heartsbeating as one. TheAllah Khburof the Saracens was the utterance of faith that was firm unto death.2002, Elissa Kyle,My Soul to Keep: A Collection of Short Stories from the Heart, page33:Their hearts had oncebeaten as one. How was it possible that she could still be here if her sister was not?2009, Helen Schucman,A Course in Miracles:Two voices raised together call to the hearts of everyone and let thembeat as one. And in that single heart beat is the unity of love proclaimed and given welcome.2012, Randal S. Chase,New Testament Study Guide, Pt. 2:It was one of those rare and seldom-experienced times when the disciples of the Lord are perfectly united, when every heartbeats as one, and when the same Spirit burns in every bosom. . . .2014, Holly Newhouse,The Twin Souls:Their souls will yearn tobeat as one, once again and this can only be done by the sealing of the bond.2015September 15, Toby Fox,Undertale,Linux,Microsoft Windows,OS X:Asriel: Right now, I can feel everyone's heartsbeating as one. They're all burning with the same desire.
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