break a heart
Example Sentences
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And when Patrice found out that this was a preventable death, she was–you can’t break a heart twice, but she was devastated, and said: I can’t bear the thought of another mother feeling this pain.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 26, 2019
Was he to desert this creature of his affections, and break a heart which beat only for him?
From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Just a line; but enough to break a heart.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
This is that which will make the water stand in our eyes, that will break a heart of flint, and that will make one do as they do that are in bitterness for their firstborn.
From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by John Bunyan
It may break a heart of stone to think, how people that are in such a condition are so unwilling to come out of it: For, 1.
From Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life by John (of Wamphray) Brown
