heart-struck

Example Sentences

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As you may have gathered, “Whales” sometimes lays on the heart-struck whimsy as thickly as a Frank Capra movie.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2012

But she stopped short a few steps away, heart-struck and gazing at Serge with rapturous astonishment.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile

Atrides, heart-struck, wander'd to and fro, And to the clear-voic'd heralds gave command To call, but not with proclamation loud, Each sev'ral man to council; he himself Spar'd not his labour, mixing with the chiefs.

From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of

He expired on the fifth day, without recovering his senses, and totally unconscious of the presence of the heart-struck mourners that were weeping round his bed.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

While thus one spirit spake, The other wailed so sorely, that heart-struck I, through compassion fainting, seem'd not far From death, and like a corse fell to the ground.

From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by MacClintock, Porter Lander