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
But that was not the departure for London which was soon to bring Judith a great heaviness of heart, and cause many a bitter fit of crying when that she was lying awake o' nights.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
Although heaviness of heart might possibly induce him to ride slowly, she thought it much more likely that exasperation of spirit would urge him to ride with reckless fury.
From The Prairie Chief by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
With heaviness of heart he repaired to his humble home.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Edward John Hardy
It was with heaviness of heart that they surrendered the last sign of Spain's ancient dominion in the far Pacific.
From History of the United States by Charles A. (Charles Austin) Beard
