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Examples
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It took him two days to get over this heartsickening disappointment.
The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923
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It took him two days to get over this heartsickening disappointment.
The Jungle 1906
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M. Joyeuse experienced all those heartsickening details, and he learned too how the will becomes weary and discouraged in the face of persistent ill-luck.
The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868
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Page 69 with the history of that bloody struggle know just how heartsickening was the taking off of this creature wherever found.
Hanover; or, The Persecution of the Lowly. Story of the Wilmington Massacre 1863
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And yet Karin Fossum’s latest, When the Devil Holds the Candle (Harcourt), finds such a character practicing passive evil — in what is basically a heartsickening tale of mothers and sons.
Dark Passage 2006
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And yet Karin Fossum’s latest, When the Devil Holds the Candle (Harcourt), finds such a character practicing passive evil — in what is basically a heartsickening tale of mothers and sons.
Dark Passage 2006
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And yet Karin Fossum’s latest, When the Devil Holds the Candle (Harcourt), finds such a character practicing passive evil — in what is basically a heartsickening tale of mothers and sons.
Dark Passage 2006
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With sudden, heartsickening certainty, she recalled Cho’s last words to her … and knew that he had been right.
Demons J. M. Dillard 2000
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With sudden, heartsickening certainty, she recalled Cho’s last words to her … and knew that he had been right.
Demons J. M. Dillard 2000
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With sudden, heartsickening certainty, she recalled Cho’s last words to her … and knew that he had been right.
Demons J. M. Dillard 2000
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