heartbrokenly
Example Sentences
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"Grant—GRANT!" she cried heartbrokenly after him, and sank down on the porch-steps with her face hidden in her arms.
From Good Indian by B. M. Bower
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
Andy, by the way, had remained heartbrokenly passive during that whole week, because Weary had extracted from him a promise which Andy, mendacious though he had the name of being, felt constrained to keep intact.
From The Flying U Ranch by B. M. Bower
Then, as suddenly as if some unseen hand had struck it out of his, the revolver dropped to the ground, and he collapsed, sobbing heartbrokenly, into the Judge's arms.
From The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton
"Then I am no nearer winning this dear hand than I was at Fareham House?" he said heartbrokenly, for he had built high hopes upon her kindness and willing companionship in that Arcadian valley.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
