Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sad-hearted; depressed in spirits.
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Examples
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Also, I apologize if this seems overly direct or formal... blog comment boxes are just not the right format, particularly for heart-heavy situations.
Translucency Happy 2008
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She hesitates before answering, thinking briefly of their last conversations before he left, those grim revelations that had left them both heart-heavy and drained.
The Comeback Season Jennifer E. Smith 2008
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She hesitates before answering, thinking briefly of their last conversations before he left, those grim revelations that had left them both heart-heavy and drained.
The Comeback Season Jennifer E. Smith 2008
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“Have patience with me till to-morrow,” said he, and they granted him the delay he sought; whereupon he went away, sore concerned for what had betided him and knowing not how he should do, and sat down in a solitary place heart-heavy, care-full, thought-opprest.
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She hesitates before answering, thinking briefly of their last conversations before he left, those grim revelations that had left them both heart-heavy and drained.
The Comeback Season Jennifer E. Smith 2008
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She hesitates before answering, thinking briefly of their last conversations before he left, those grim revelations that had left them both heart-heavy and drained.
The Comeback Season Jennifer E. Smith 2008
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Individuals may be characterized as “heart-heavy” or “brainheavy.”
Results FROM THE Heart Kiyoshi Suzaki 2002
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It came clear to him suddenly how like were Brother Oswin's large hands to those of Joscelin Lucy, and yet how the one pair made a havoc of whatever they touched, and the other pair, for all their size, moved with delicate dexterity, whether on the reins of a speckled grey horse, or sword and lance, or circling the tender body of a heart-heavy girl.
The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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It came clear to him suddenly how like were Brother Oswin's large hands to those of Joscelin Lucy, and yet how the one pair made a havoc of whatever they touched, and the other pair, for all their size, moved with delicate dexterity, whether on the reins of a speckled grey horse, or sword and lance, or circling the tender body of a heart-heavy girl.
The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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And so, weary with pleasure, and heart-heavy with feelings that had no longer any reason to exist, pale with fatigue, untidy with crush, their pretty white gowns sullied and passé, each went her way; in every heart a wonder whether the few hilarious hours of strange emotions were worth all they claimed as their right and due.
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