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There on the carpeted counter, between the rifles, she sobbed heartbrokenly.

From The She Boss A Western Story by Arthur Preston Hankins

“Then you aren’t—?” she questioned heartbrokenly, “then you aren’t, at all?”

From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Annabel Sharp

It was a foolish step, my coming here to see you," Miss Cooper complained heartbrokenly; "it places me in a bitterly cruel position.

From The Paternoster Ruby by Charles Edmonds Walk

But Pollyanna, too, was obdurate, though so sweetly and heartbrokenly obdurate that Jimmy, in spite of his pain and anger, felt almost like turning comforter.

From Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

And when she couldn’t she just dropped down against the bank on the lawn and sobbed and cried as heartbrokenly as Muffie might have done.”

From In the Mist of the Mountains by J. Macfarlane




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