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

Let us not heed these things! for--light as is the task to traders in death's dark trappings; painful and soul-subduing are those withering details to the grieving and heart-struck mourner!

From A Love Story by A Bushman

"Fool!" said the sophist, in an under-tone Gruff with contempt; which a death-nighing moan From Lycius answer'd, as heart-struck and lost, He sank supine beside the aching ghost.

From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)