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
Dammy, but you'll break a heart or two, you rogue!
From The Maid-At-Arms by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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
Without a word, he bows himself to Joab, and runs, as unconcerned as the paper of a letter that may break a heart.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander
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
