dear to somebody's heart

Marion, dearest heart, good bye!

My very dear twin, Zillah is here, at last she is here, but my dearest heart has arrived to a community in confusion and desolation.

Well, my love, my dearest heart," Blake said, sadly, "it matters to me.

David, you've got the dearest heart in the world.

Who was the real Neal Cassady - the pied piper of liberation, the "dearest heart" in Gordon Lish's phrase, or the self-hating penitent sucking a tailpipe?

I could have wrung your neck, my dearest heart.

My dearest heart, I may not have known that I loved you at first, but you were always in my heart and mind, someone I wanted to know better, to be with.

If you won't have me, my dearest heart, I think that I shall go into a monastery or emigrate to some far-flung spot.

I should have found time to talk to you, my dearest heart, but little Paul was ill and you were like a mouse down a hole every time I looked for you.

"Look, dearest heart," he said.