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
It would break a heart of stone to hear her: ‘Oh! dear sir, what shall I do?’
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various
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 Brown, John (of Wamphray)
What spectre from the other world has power to break a heart?
From Mount Music by Ross, Martin
There was in her just now nothing but the pagan desire to rule, and to break a heart if need be, if she could not otherwise subdue it.
From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
