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  • To me seated secure came grief for joy when Grendel began to harry my home, the hellish foe; for those ruthless raids, unresting I suffered heart-sorrow heavy.

    Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

  • To me seated secure came grief for joy when Grendel began to harry my home, the hellish foe; for those ruthless raids, unresting I suffered heart-sorrow heavy.

    Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

  • To me seated secure came grief for joy when Grendel began to harry my home, the hellish foe; for those ruthless raids, unresting I suffered heart-sorrow heavy.

    Beowulf 2003

  • The interest of this book which describes her travel is quickened by a knowledge of the heart-sorrow that underlies it all.

    Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003

  • For here to-day are two things come to pass: the sons of men shall lose their heavenly kingdom, and journey unto thee to burn in flame; also heart-sorrow and affliction are visited on God.

    Codex Junius 11 Unknown

  • But the heart-sorrow, the sometimes unconscious longing for something higher and better, showing through the paint and powder, the hard, sinister lines, the brazen, defiant eyes, touched my heart with the awful sorrow of it all, and I would give all I possess to be able to touch them and to help them.

    Fifteen Years with the Outcast

  • 'As it is mournful for an old man, etc. ... so the defence of the Weders (2463) bore heart-sorrow, etc.'

    Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall

  • Yes, Molly, smile if you will at my folly, but I go from the mountains with a deep heart-sorrow.

    The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

  • But the heart-sorrow, the sometimes unconscious longing for something higher and better, showing through the paint and powder, the hard, sinister lines, the brazen, defiant eyes, touched my heart with the awful sorrow of it all, and I would give all I possess to be able to touch them and to help them.

    Fifteen Years With The Outcast Mother 1912

  • But through, my sorrow of heart I know them, and through their heart-sorrow they know me.

    Mystics and Saints of Islam Claud Field 1902

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