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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wounded to the heart with love or grief.
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Examples
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Stood the great son, heart-wounded with the sight:
The Odyssey of Homer 2003
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There was no answer for the letter of the heart-wounded Gertrude.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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Fléchier's sermons, -- but generally he had the nervous, tired look of a heart-wounded man.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various
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He never entered in with the young men exactly as a companion again; but generally he had the nervous, tired look of a heart-wounded man.
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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He lighted up occasionally, I remember late in his life hearing him fairly eloquent on something which had been suggested to him by one of Fléchiers sermons, but generally he had the nervous, tired look of a heart-wounded man.
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He lighted up occasionally -- I remember late in his life hearing him fairly eloquent on something which had been suggested to him by one of Fléchier's sermons -- but generally he had the nervous, tired look of a heart-wounded man.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Various 1880
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Fléchier's sermons, -- but generally he had the nervous, tired look of a heart-wounded man.
If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact Edward Everett Hale 1865
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And now it seemed to the poor, shocked, heart-wounded creature, as if the human face were just the one thing he could no more look upon.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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Won by the distress and supplications of the heart-wounded Oscar, the earl of Torrington consented to accompany him to Paris, and to assist his endeavours to separate the deluded Cecilia from her supposed seducer.
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Come list, while I tell of the heart-wounded Stranger
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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