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
Although heaviness of heart might possibly induce him to ride slowly, she thought it much more likely that exasperation of spirit would urge him to ride with reckless fury.
From The Prairie Chief by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
There is no peace beneath a conqueror's yoke, My King, but shame and heaviness of heart!
From The House of Rimmon A Drama in Four Acts by Van Dyke, Henry
With heaviness of heart he repaired to his humble home.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
Whereas, the pleasure and joy of the world are always attended with heaviness of heart, and an inward sting of a wounded conscience.
From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann
