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 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)
Indeed, she is one of the most charming women I ever met, and to hear her story is enough to break a heart of stone.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham
Dammy, but you'll break a heart or two, you rogue!
From The Maid-At-Arms by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Was he to desert this creature of his affections, and break a heart which beat only for him?
From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
