heart-wrung

The heart-wrung mother, still weak and quivering from her collapse, crept through the hotel and came faltering to the kitchen threshold, but dared not enter.

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

It was the first of those heart-wrung fancies that went to the making of the volume that lies before me as I write -- the familiar lament for the lost "Maid of the Moor" that shepherds still are singing on his native hills.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

My master was much affected by the sight of my emotion; and for some minutes the silence was unbroken, save by my heart-wrung sobs.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

By what mysterious power Jason Hammond had won the gentle girl from her devoted father no one knew, but with haggard face and heart-wrung pain,

Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts

For the blood that flows and the heart-wrung throes?

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe Various

Exquisite, whimsy, heart-wrung tales; men devoured them and craved for more.

Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 1916

I wonder if in that dim world beyond, as he came gliding in, there rose on some wan throne a King, -- a dark and pierced Jew, who knows the writhings of the earthly damned, saying, as he laid those heart-wrung talents down, "Well done!" while round about the morning stars sat singing.

The Souls of Black Folk 1915

She sprang up and stood before her in heart-wrung fury.

T. Tembarom 1913

Christian had fallen face forward in the snow, with his arms flung up and wide, and so had the frost made him rigid: strange, ghastly, unyielding to Sweyn's lifting, so that he laid him down again and crouched above, with his arms fast round him, and a low heart-wrung groan.

The Were-Wolf Clemence Housman 1912

She deliberately made a face, not at the tree behind which Penrod was lurking, but at the innocent and heart-wrung Sam.

Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907