break one's heart
Example Sentences
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If she must go, she must; she was only eating her heart out here; and perhaps it's better to break one's heart on something than eat it out in emptiness.
From The Lee Shore by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
One could intelligibly break one's heart over that.
From Lord Jim by Conrad, Joseph
So he began to shriek and to bewail; ’twas enough to break one’s heart; and so the King threw his pocket-handkerchief to him to bind his wound.
From East of the Sun and West of the Moon Old Tales from the North by Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen
The small, everyday duties and the great loves that hold one and keep one and stop one—they it is that break one's heart in two.
From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti
Is not that enough to break one's heart?
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Sue, Eugène
