heart-struck
Example Sentences
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As you may have gathered, “Whales” sometimes lays on the heart-struck whimsy as thickly as a Frank Capra movie.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2012
"True, O God!" replied the heart-struck Hero; and then this hapless lady sank down in a fainting fit, to all appearance dead.
From Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb, Mary
"Fool!" said the sophist, in an under-tone Gruff with contempt; which a death-nighing moan From Lycius answer'd, as heart-struck and lost, He sank supine beside the aching ghost.
From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)
None but the fool, who labours to out-jest His heart-struck injuries.
From King Lear by Shakespeare, William
But she stopped short a few steps away, heart-struck and gazing at Serge with rapturous astonishment.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
