heaviness of heart
Example Sentences
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At whatever address they happen to be, dozens of Chinese refugee students will get letters from home this week, and each will bring a heaviness of heart and a torment of fear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nevertheless she had a heaviness of heart, a natural distress as to the unpleasantness in prospect; and had only the slightest hope that Ed would ignore or refuse to hear Burkhardt’s story.
From In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd
All his heaviness of heart was gone; he felt curiously glad and young; he had somehow forgiven the wrong he had suffered and the wrong he had done.
From A Pair of Patient Lovers by William Dean Howells
But she paced behind in heaviness of heart, her head veiled, and the dark robe floating about her slender feet divine.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Andrew Lang
When she awoke, the bright-hued dome of the tent was aglow in the morning sun; the reflected radiance bathed her face and form; her heaviness of heart had taken wings.
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
