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
But Polish women of this kind would rather break a heart than break their word.
From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
If I tell it, I break a heart.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth
What spectre from the other world has power to break a heart?
From Mount Music by Ross, Martin
