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
Helen—even then, heart-struck as I was, I could not but pity the unfortunate being whose very apprehensions were thus agonizing.
From Theresa Marchmont Or, the Maid of Honour A Tale by Gore, Mrs. (Catherine Grace Frances)
But she stopped short a few steps away, heart-struck and gazing at Serge with rapturous astonishment.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
And in the heart-struck silence which fell upon the little group that she left behind, Lady Caroline gravely bowed and led her weeping daughter from the room.
From A True Friend A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline
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
