cockles of the heart
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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)
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
Of course there will be supper when she returns, and singing and wassail and jollity, warming to the cockles of the heart.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
