| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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“To warm the cockles of one’s heart,” said of good wine. (Latin, cochleœ cordis, the ventricles of the heart.) | 1 |
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“Fibræ quidem rectis hisce exterioribus in dextro ventriculo proxime subjectæ oblique dextrorsum ascendentes in basim cordis terminantur, et spirali suo ambitu helicem sive cochleam satis apte referunt.”—Lower: Tractatus de Corde, p. 25. (1669.) |
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