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
And he wondered with a sickening heaviness of heart how he was to go on with the wretched business of his engagement.
From The Golden Silence by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
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
But Phœbe felt a sudden heaviness of heart.
From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Groce, Helen Mason
All the heaviness of heart, all the resentment she had felt in the first few days when she followed him perforce away from Cariboo Meadows, came back to her with redoubled force that forenoon.
From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto
