heaviness of heart
Example Sentences
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At whatever address they happen to be, dozens of Chinese refugee students will get letters from home this week, and each will bring a heaviness of heart and a torment of fear.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't know how I said good-night to them; but I did the best I could, and came home through the moonlight with a great heaviness of heart and feet.
From Phyllis by Johnson, Percy D.
And, next day, to Hazel, sitting by watching him swing the heavy, double-bitted ax on the foundation logs of their winter home, it all seemed foolish, that heaviness of heart which sometimes assailed her.
From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto
Forgive me, young lady, I have not courage to place the whole fortunes of my life upon one cast; already I feel the heaviness of heart that heralds in misfortune.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Lever, Charles James
And he wondered with a sickening heaviness of heart how he was to go on with the wretched business of his engagement.
From The Golden Silence by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
