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
They that in heaviness of heart loved him still grieved that he might not touch the dark shore.
From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary
"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
Whereas, the pleasure and joy of the world are always attended with heaviness of heart, and an inward sting of a wounded conscience.
From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann
And it is for him that, moved by grief, I weep in heaviness of heart and these tears of compassion trickle down my eyes!'
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
