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/brˈoʊkən hɑrt/ Listen

Broken heart

noun

Devastating sorrow and despair. "A broken heart languishes here"

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"Broken heart" Quotes from Famous Books

... little address as a proposal, and of course she was disappointed; but, as an action for breach of promise cannot be pressed in the Soudan, poor Barrake, although free, had not the happy rights of a free-born Englishwoman, who can heal her broken heart with a pecuniary plaster, and console herself with damages for the loss of ...

— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker

... all come of a broken heart," he said with a smile as he passed me. Yet somehow the smile seemed ...

— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky

... afternoon, and vanished, none knew whither. A very courteous note to Lady Grenville, enclosing the jewel which he had been used to wear round his neck, was the only memorial he left behind him: except, indeed, the scar on Cary's arm, and poor Rose's broken heart. ...

— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

... his mouth six inches wide: and, before he got the cut, it was as broad as yer own out there. Besides, his hair being of a fire's own red, you may safely say that he was not the most beautiful young man in Limerick, and that there wasn't many gals that were dying of a broken heart for ...

— The Lost Trail - I • Edward S. Ellis

... prevent them from all three getting a severe chastisement; but as time wore on he found the life these three caged-up young women managed to lead him anything but the earthly paradise he thought he was creating, and, financial troubles overtaking him at the same time, the old fellow fairly died of a broken heart in less than twelve months after he had so hopefully installed himself in ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

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