set one's heart on
Example Sentences
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It is not wise to set one’s heart on what one is not sure of getting—or on things that perish with the using—which is emphatically true of jackets.
From Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
To be morally good is to know the good, to set one's heart on the true object of affection; and to be theoretically sound is to understand perfection.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
Two beautiful eyes looking upon you and seeming to say: 'March upon the enemy!' are enough to set one's heart on fire!
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
"Mother, it must always be the last chance—the only chance, when one has set one's heart on it."
From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell
