heart-sickening

• “It now seemed so obvious, everything falling into place with a heart-sickening clunk.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Demon Queen

• “I had before experienced sensations of horror; and I have endeavoured to bestow upon them adequate expressions, but words cannot convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endured.”

  Simon & Schuster: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

• “I will not even allude to the many heart-sickening atrocities which I authentically heard of; — nor would I have mentioned the above revolting details, had I not met with several people, so blinded by the constitutional gaiety of the negro as to speak of slavery as a tolerable evil.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “And thus we settled down in the spot which was to be the burial place of so many of our party — which was fated to be the scene of so much intense suffering, and of such heart-sickening hope deferred.”

  Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York

• “When the first moment of dismay and heart-sickening agitation had passed, it seemed to me as if my mind acquired a collectedness and clearness more complete and intense than I had ever experienced before.”

  The Purcell Papers

• “I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to bestow upon them adequate expressions, but words cannot convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endured.”

  Frankenstein

• “This time, however, there was a heart-sickening fall or loss of nerve, a re-grouping moments later and a wonderful new idea enthusiastically signalled through the buffeting noise.”

  So long, and thanks for all the fish

• “We slept as best we could the rest of the night, and were up early to get the soldiers their breakfast and get ready for the heart-sickening work.”

  Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)

• “Of all the miseries of human life, and God knows they are manifold enough, there are few more utterly heart-sickening and overwhelming than those endured by the unlucky Heir Presumptive; when, after having submitted to the whims and caprices of some rich relation, and endured a state of worse than Egyptian bondage, for a long series of years, he finds himself cut off with a shilling, or a mourning ring; and the El”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827

• “But these are things too heart-sickening to dwell upon.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864

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