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.
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
All through, too, there seemed so much reserve power that one could not resist the conviction that he could go on and on, and break one's heart with his voice if he chose.
From Upon The Tree-Tops by Miller, Olive Thorne
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
It's enough to break one's heart to think of such a glorious old place in such hands.
From Wilfrid Cumbermede by MacDonald, George
