break one's heart
Example Sentences
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Do you think I could go through another series of long months, with only those letters, and letters, and letters to break one's heart over?
From Macleod of Dare by Black, William
The next day, when they were to be buried, the sight was enough to break one's heart.
From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Durand, John
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.]
The crickets chirped, and a shepherd lad lying among the tall grasses blew so melancholy an air upon his horn that it was enough to break one's heart.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
