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
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
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
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
Nevertheless she had a heaviness of heart, a natural distress as to the unpleasantness in prospect; and had only the slightest hope that Ed would ignore or refuse to hear Burkhardt’s story.
From In the Shadow of the Hills by Shedd, George C. (George Clifford)
