heartache

• The other kids—some of them adults now—had caused him so much heartache, and their mother… Christ, what had he ever seen in Eunice Prescott—a skinny woman with a sharp tongue who'd thought sex with him had been her duty—nothing more than a chore? —  Jackson, Lisa - See How she dies 2
• Alagna embodied Ruggero's pain with throbbing heartache, his burnished voice blossoming into Gheorghiu's for the ending. —  TheState.com: The Buzz
• That her mother would not be there to share her honor at Venice clearly pointed Calle towards a different kind of heartache, and yet when I note this change of subject she says, no, not at all, death and boyfriends who go missing are the same thing. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• If to face gayly a land she dreaded were the price of easing his heartache--and her own--that price she would pay, and pay with a grace but lately learned She lay down on the lounge again. —  North of Fifty-Three
• They say that the Ladd babies was always discouraged two days after they was born The cause of Letty's chief heartache, the one that she could reveal to nobody, was that her brother should leave her nowadays so completely to her own resources. —  The Romance of a Christmas Card

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