heart-struck
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As you may have gathered, “Whales” sometimes lays on the heart-struck whimsy as thickly as a Frank Capra movie.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2012
Mary was indeed heart-struck at the contents of this letter, but most especially at the accusation which so distinctly pointed out the innocent object of her already doubly-excited pity.
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
But she stopped short a few steps away, heart-struck and gazing at Serge with rapturous astonishment.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola
"True, O God!" replied the heart-struck Hero; and then this hapless lady sank down in a fainting fit, to all appearance dead.
From Tales from Shakespeare by Mary Lamb
While thus one spirit spake, The other wailed so sorely, that heart-struck I, through compassion fainting, seem'd not far From death, and like a corse fell to the ground.
From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by Porter Lander MacClintock
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