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
And, next day, to Hazel, sitting by watching him swing the heavy, double-bitted ax on the foundation logs of their winter home, it all seemed foolish, that heaviness of heart which sometimes assailed her.
From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto
"Now, gracious Father, grant me faith!" so prayed I once, in the deepest heaviness of heart.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
With heaviness of heart he repaired to his humble home.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
But Phœbe felt a sudden heaviness of heart.
From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Groce, Helen Mason
