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 is so easy to break a heart; sometimes a mere word will do it.
From Ziska by Corelli, Marie
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 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
If I tell it, I break a heart.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth
