heart-heaving

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Soon a mass of silent but heart-heaving humanity was crowded compactly before him.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various
And the fear weakening his limbs changed his drunken stupor to a heart-heaving sickness.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885
--- He had sat for some time in this Posture, with a Stillness, that made us conclude him asleep: when, on a sudden, we heard a Succession of heart-heaving Sobs; which while he strove to conceal from our

Samuel Richardson's Introduction to Pamela Samuel Richardson 1725
How the people of Tarascon would have kicked themselves for having constrained the great Tartarin to leave home, if they had but seen him stretched in the bunk in the dull, wan gleam through the dead-light, amid the sickly odour of cooking and wet wood -- the heart-heaving perfume of mail-boats; if they had but heard him gurgle at every turn of the screw, wail for tea every five minutes, and swear at the steward in a childish treble!

Tartarin of Tarascon Alphonse Daudet 1868