sad-hearted

The sad-hearted acceptance that it was always too good to be true as we headed out to the delayed-but-kept reservation.

Archive 2006-05-01 Hal Duncan 2006

Count me amongst those who, like Sara and like Yeats's sad-hearted reader, have been saved by the right words read at the right time too many times to count.

The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: A Crooked Kind of Healing tanita davis 2008

The sad-hearted acceptance that it was always too good to be true as we headed out to the delayed-but-kept reservation.

Wiscon Hal Duncan 2006

With his nice but not outstanding features and his penchant for playing soft-spoken, sad-hearted Everymen, Macy doesn't exactly exude charisma.

Simple Tricks and Nonsense: February 2004 Archives 2004

With his nice but not outstanding features and his penchant for playing soft-spoken, sad-hearted Everymen, Macy doesn't exactly exude charisma.

Simple Tricks and Nonsense: Movie Review: The Cooler 2004

I was careful to attempt nothing in the lace chamber, but tumbled their goods pretty much to spend time; then bought a few yards of edging and paid for it, and came away very sad-hearted indeed for the poor woman, who was in tribulation for what I only had stolen.

Moll Flanders 2003

All she did, and all she left undone, she looked at with sad-hearted reference to the great object of her life.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

By his skill and education, he rendered his compositions more regular and palpable, than those songs and their airs which had been framed and sung by the sad-hearted swain on the hill, or the love-lorn maiden in the green wood.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

When the golden crescent moon, no sooner visible than ready to vanish in the rosy western sky, was smiling on the exiles with the old familiar look she wore above the groves of Thessaly, the sad-hearted ones were roused again by the voice of their unknown friend.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

One would have said, to look at him, that he was not at the party by choice; and it was natural enough to think, with Susy Pettingill, that it must have been a freak of the dark girl's that brought him there, for he had the air of a shy and sad-hearted recluse.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various