heart-weary

Elizabeth would have had her re-enter it, offering her a small place in the household: but she declined, saying that she was too old and heart-weary for aught but prayer.

Westward Ho! 2007

Kitty was footsore and heart-weary, and felt inclined to cry, but was nevertheless resolved not to go back to her home in

Madame Midas 2003

He sighed as he gazed, though not in discontent; but he was foot-sore and heart-weary, and he longed for rest.

Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson

Where Saul, heart-weary, watched the dreadful strife

The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses J. C. Manning

She was too young to be heart-weary, and she knew nothing yet of the burdens and perplexities of life.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

I felt it that day when I was heart-weary, and was glad that in one corner of this restless world the little hills preach peace.

Cecilia de Noël Lanoe Falconer

It was a heart-weary, trembling Judith who late that afternoon made her way upward along another ridge, seeking anxiously to find from this lookout some landmark which she had sought in vain last night.

Judith of Blue Lake Ranch Jackson Gregory 1912

For seven years longer these thousands of pallid, heart-weary men and women were to suffer, with no one to champion their cause.

A Prince of Sinners 1906

But thanks to the steadiness of the rearguard, and to their leader's genius for the art of war, no further lives were lost; no further advantage gained by the Waziris; and at length, heart-weary and leg-weary, they reached the plateau itself, to find Brownlow, -- with shot and shell, and two hundred Sikhs thirsting for battle, -- already there before them, having covered the nine miles in one and a half hours.

The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

I am a miserable, heart-weary wreck, -- a woman with fame, without love.

Violets and Other Tales Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905