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
Was he to desert this creature of his affections, and break a heart which beat only for him?
From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Without a word, he bows himself to Joab, and runs, as unconcerned as the paper of a letter that may break a heart.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander
It would break a heart of stone to hear her: ‘Oh! dear sir, what shall I do?’
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various
Dammy, but you'll break a heart or two, you rogue!
From The Maid-At-Arms by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
