But the echoes fled across her heart, asking, Did they?

"Karen, I hear your voice and it's like having jewels rustling across my heart."

I stared at him, feeling a chill spread across my heart.

Banks felt as if a hand made of ice had slid across his heart.

He bowed again, a more modest version, with his right hand spread across his heart.

The shadow of the horror lay across his heart, and he did not dare try to look into the past.

His words were like the lashes of a whip across her heart.

And although you may not believe this either, each word of the letter you're reading has been like a lash across my heart.

'Each word has been like a lash across my heart'?

"I understand that," Regan said, and something in his tone ran a cold finger across my heart.