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 Phœbe felt a sudden heaviness of heart.
From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Groce, Helen Mason
But they did not entirely repay me for the heaviness of heart from which I suffered.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise
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.
All his heaviness of heart was gone; he felt curiously glad and young; he had somehow forgiven the wrong he had suffered and the wrong he had done.
From A Pair of Patient Lovers by Howells, William Dean
