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

They set the fires of the spirit burning more brightly, warming the cockles of the heart and raising the temperature of the man if not that of the air about him.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

Cock′le-hat, a hat bearing a scallop-shell, the badge of a pilgrim; Cock′le-shell, the shell of a cockle: a frail boat.—The cockles of the heart, the heart itself.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Flashes of wit glanced here and there, and how they came home and warmed the cockles of the heart.

From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony