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
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)
Dammy, but you'll break a heart or two, you rogue!
From The Maid-At-Arms by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Just a line; but enough to break a heart.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
It is so easy to break a heart; sometimes a mere word will do it.
From Ziska by Corelli, Marie
