heaviness of heart

He said he was resigning with "a great heaviness of heart" for the sake of his family and he hoped that his constituents would "tolerate" him in the future.

"I feel a bit lighter to get something that's been hanging over me for four or five years dealt with. But obviously, I have a heaviness of heart because technically, at 61, I now have a criminal conviction."

He dreamed that his fairest front-tooth had dropped, out, at which he felt great grief and heaviness of heart; but on looking at the gap in the mirror, to see whether it deformed him much, a fresh tooth had grown forth in its place, fair and white as the rest, and the loss could not be observed.

But they did not entirely repay me for the heaviness of heart from which I suffered.

But that was not the departure for London which was soon to bring Judith a great heaviness of heart, and cause many a bitter fit of crying when that she was lying awake o' nights.