break a heart

Example Sentences

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And when Patrice found out that this was a preventable death, she was–you can’t break a heart twice, but she was devastated, and said: I can’t bear the thought of another mother feeling this pain.

From MSNBC • Jun. 26, 2019

This is that which will make the water stand in our eyes, that will break a heart of flint, and that will make one do as they do that are in bitterness for their firstborn.

From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by Bunyan, John

It may break a heart of stone to think, how people that are in such a condition are so unwilling to come out of it: For, 1.

From Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life by Brown, John (of Wamphray)

There was in her just now nothing but the pagan desire to rule, and to break a heart if need be, if she could not otherwise subdue it.

From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Here, when she smiles, you know it is her teeth She's putting to the test ere she depart For the gay revel on the lawn beneath, Or moonlight ramble that may break a heart.

From When hearts are trumps by Hall, Thomas Winthrop