break one's heart
Example Sentences
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I'll do more than that, my little lamb; and ain't it enough to break one's heart to hear the poor innocent, and she taking it so calm and collected-like?
From The Children's Pilgrimage by Meade, L. T.
The efforts of chance writers, if they be men of genius and learning, are things to break one’s heart over.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
But the sights, Mate dear, are enough to break one's heart.
From The Lady of the Decoration by Little, Frances, [pseud.]
But lovers seem always to break one's heart and to love the wrong one.
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
Somehow I don't think a man would have the heart to break one's heart; but, to be sure, I don't know....
From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny
