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
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
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
Despite all, the heaviness of heart remains, pressing upon those who listen as on her who sings.
From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne
