break one's heart
Example Sentences
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Our friend's mother was one of the next to go, and the way his brothers and sisters disappeared one after another was a thing to break one's heart.
From Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals by William Davenport Hulbert
But lovers seem always to break one's heart and to love the wrong one.
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda Minnie Douglas
The efforts of chance writers, if they be men of genius and learning, are things to break one’s heart over.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
Nilsson could sing Swedish melodies in a way to drive one crazy or break one's heart.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
"It does break one's heart to see such children, doesn't it?" she answered, looking at them tenderly and ignoring his pointed tribute to her beauty.
From The One Woman by Thomas Dixon
