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
But that was not the departure for London which was soon to bring Judith a great heaviness of heart, and cause many a bitter fit of crying when that she was lying awake o' nights.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William
I write all this laughingly now, but suspense makes heaviness of heart, and you cost me some uneasy hours, of course.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
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
Bitterness and heaviness of heart dwelt deep in Brian that night, and for some time to come.
From Nuala O'Malley by Bedford-Jones, H.
