heart-burst

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The four provinces of Ireland came into a tumult of weapons about the points of their own spears and weapons, so that a hundred warriors of them died of terror and of heart-burst in the middle of the camp and of the position that night.

Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday
He had remained standing, and for a moment looked at Alice as she sat with hat-hidden face, and then his heart-burst came.

Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast Charles Clark Munn 1882