broken heart

“She was past the age where a broken heart could be mended with a cup of warm chocolate and a steaming hunk of Cookie’s gingerbread.”

One Night Of Scandal

“O may these meltings of a broken heart end in conversion!”

Religion in Earnest

“If ever there was a broken heart — one crushed and blighted by the rude grasp of suffering misfortune — it was Patsey's.”

Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853--,

“Of strangerhood and broken heart and love I must aby:”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

“With broken heart and contrite sigh, [4139] t2. t210.h133-p0.6”

The Hymnal [of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA]

“While he was storming with abusive language, and even using the gory lash with hellish vengeance to separate husband and wife, I could see the sympathetic teardrop, stealing its way down the cheek of the profligate and black-leg, whose object it now was to bind up the broken heart of a wife, and restore to the arms of a bereaved husband, his companion.”

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of an American Slave Written by Himself

“But Thorold's suicide is mere weakness, scarce a perverted courage; and Mildred's broken heart was an ill not beyond the healing of a morally robust physician.”

Life of Robert Browning