heartsick

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But she looked so--heartsick, didn't she, Fairy Connie certainly was heartsick.

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  • From the moment at which we have now arrived, we must make a much larger place for Ugolini than in the past; the struggle has definitively opened between the Franciscan ideal—chimerical, perhaps, but sublime—and - 213 - the ecclesiastical policy, to go on until the day when, half in humility, half in discouragement, Francis, heartsick, abdicates the direction of his spiritual family. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
  • I was heartsick, discouraged, and full of resentment and indignation, which until then had been pent up. —  The Story of a Pioneer
  • He watched, heartsick, as his Miranda lost point after point to a girl who wasn't fit to carry her racquet. —  EQMM,June2007
  • She was relieved because she'd realized in time the terrible mistake she would have made if she married Mr. O'Toole. She was also heartsick, because she knew she was going to have to leave Travis. —  Garwood, Julie - Rose 2 - One Pink Rose
  • Very hard, if you're completely heartsick, and your head is pink, and your nemesis works in the store, and you're behaving kind of strangely in general. —  Maureen's Blog
 

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