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

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

Here, when she smiles, you know it is her teeth She's putting to the test ere she depart For the gay revel on the lawn beneath, Or moonlight ramble that may break a heart.

From When hearts are trumps by Hall, Thomas Winthrop

It may be that your supplications, rising, May yet avert this dire, impending blow: Oft prayer can break a heart of adamant.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

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