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  • Her eyes filled with tears — burning tears of insult and impotence — such tears she had wept for twenty years of her married life, but lately she had almost forgotten their acid, heart-corroding taste.

    Mother 2003

  • The giant republic, whose rising greatness throws into shade the once august names of Greece and Rome, suffers this heart-corroding leprosy to cleave to her vitals, and sully her fair fame, making her boasted vaunt of _equality_ a base lie -- the scorn of all Christian men.

    Life in the Clearings versus the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

  • Up to this, Ministers performed a sort of Greek chorus, chanting in ambiguous phrase the woes that invaded those who differed from them, and the heart-corroding sorrows that sat below the "gangway."

    Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839

  • I coveted upon earth, traitorously emptied it, and substituted a heart-corroding poison in its stead?

    Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3 John Richardson 1824

  • I coveted upon earth, traitorously emptied it, and substituted a heart-corroding poison in its stead?

    Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) John Richardson 1824

  • Who, press'd with heart-corroding grief and years,

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716

  • Who, press’d with heart-corroding grief and years,

    The Odyssey of Homer 2003

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