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Set one's heart on

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Verb
  1. 1
    To desire with intensity and commitment, to earnestly long for. idiomatic, transitive

    "With all the willful eagerness of a child she set her heart on that visit, and from morning till night she would talk with her little boys of the journey to what seemed to her the brightest, most sacred spot on earth, next to her present home."

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