heart-struck

Example Sentences

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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

"What do you require?" asks Wotan at last, in gloom, heart-struck.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

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 MacClintock, Porter Lander

Pleasure, heart-struck at the death of Adonais, has abrogated her own nature, and has become blinded with tears; her eyes can therefore serve no longer to guide her steps.

From Adonais by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Let us not heed these things! for--light as is the task to traders in death's dark trappings; painful and soul-subduing are those withering details to the grieving and heart-struck mourner!

From A Love Story by A Bushman