break one's heart
Example Sentences
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All through, too, there seemed so much reserve power that one could not resist the conviction that he could go on and on, and break one's heart with his voice if he chose.
From Upon The Tree-Tops by Miller, Olive Thorne
The small, everyday duties and the great loves that hold one and keep one and stop one—they it is that break one's heart in two.
From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti
The efforts of chance writers, if they be men of genius and learning, are things to break one’s heart over.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
Miss Hyde, don't ever want to see a man cry; it's enough to break one's heart!
From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
The crickets chirped, and a shepherd lad lying among the tall grasses blew so melancholy an air upon his horn that it was enough to break one's heart.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
