heart-grief

The severe mental discipline which I had forced upon myself, the long striving to subdue the strongest feelings of a man's heart, together with my real heart-grief at my mother's death, were enough, certainly, to craze any one.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

Then Arthur went away; and as he was walking homewards, there was more than one tear brushed away by his little hot, ink-stained hand, though it was not a heart-grief to him, and he did not know what a lonely, desolate feeling was in Edgar's heart, as he watched him walking slowly away until the distance hid him from his eyes; for Arthur was the chief object in his heart just then.

Left at Home or, The Heart's Resting Place Mary L. Code

Was it that ye among men most wretched should come to have heart-grief?

A Reading of Life, Other Poems George Meredith 1868

My greatest sorrow was the heart-grief of Therese who, seeing me torn from her arms at the very moment of our union, was suffocated by the tears which she tried to repress.

The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

It was a heart-grief to him to give up the young man, for he had reared him from the baptism water, and he had been a faithful servant unto him up to this day.

Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824

My greatest sorrow was the heart-grief of Therese who, seeing me torn from her arms at the very moment of our union, was suffocated by the tears which she tried to repress.

Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 02: a Cleric in Naples Giacomo Casanova 1761

My greatest sorrow was the heart-grief of Therese who, seeing me torn from her arms at the very moment of our union, was suffocated by the tears which she tried to repress.

The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

a spirit of her own, has Miss Kitty, and if she cried up-stairs alone with me, -- tears of anger and mortification, it struck me, rather than of heart-grief, -- I will venture she shed no tears before him.

A Touch of Sun and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

"I should like to know whether a deep heart-grief would resist the influence of a long voyage.

The Home Fredrika Bremer 1833