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Example sentences for "heart was"

  • Indeed, I have always considered that where my heart was in question I would always decide for Love and penury rather than a Castle and greed.

  • My Heart was full of a longing to be understood.

  • My heart was beating so fast, and there was such a singing in my ears, that I could scarcely stammer I had no objection.

  • They awakened a tender emotion in me; for my heart was softened by my return, and such a change had come to pass, that I felt like one who was toiling home barefoot from distant travel, and whose wanderings had lasted many years.

  • Mr. Eltinge is now beyond age and weakness, but Ida often murmurs with tears in her eyes as she looks at his portrait, "He is just speaking to me as he did when my heart was breaking.

  • He recognised to the full how fearfully soft the boy's heart was, how much he would suffer in this business, and in life generally.

  • Then I could bear no more, for my heart was broken.

  • Nay, my heart was pure--my heart was pure.

  • So once more I came and went about the Court, though but sparingly, for my heart was full of shame and terror, and on every face I feared to see the scorn of those who knew me for what I was.

  • Yet as I sat at the royal feast my heart was heavy, and a shadow of coming woe lay cold within my mind.

  • And my heart was heavy--heavy with the presence of death that dwelt amongst us.

  • She came and shouted, and my head was so bad, and my heart was worse.

  • But this man's heart was full of anger against his own people, full of anger existing there by the side of his desire of her.

  • I should have read it ten times better, Sir, answered Trim, but that my heart was so full.

  • I will not say this melancholy circumstance afflicted me as it did her; but I am of opinion my grief of heart was as painful as her tears.

  • My heart was full, and I disclosed it to him.

  • The victorious argument by which she subdued my heart was, that at that moment Diderot was in distress.

  • Helen's heart was so full of despair and yearning just then that she could have rushed out and flung herself at his feet, had he been alone; but she felt a new kind of shrinking from her aunt.

  • I woke just in time for my afternoon service; and the inward peace in which I found my heart was to myself a marvel and a delight.

  • And my heart was as full o' love to them.

  • But my heart was a well in which a storm boiled and raged; and all that "pother o'er my head" was peace itself compared to what I felt.

  • My heart was heavy, I felt miserable; I went to bed.

  • My heart was unoccupied; I longed to see Lucrezia and Therese, whose charms after five years I could scarcely recollect.

  • The reader will think that after this conversation my heart was perfectly at rest; but how far was I from resting!

  • For nearly an hour I told him all the grief with which my heart was bursting, weeping bitterly; yet I could not move him from his decision.

  • My heart was bleeding as I thought of you; but my conscience is at rest, and I did nothing that could render me unworthy of your esteem.

  • I made as much of them as I could such ordinary company; and yet my heart was glad to see them, though their condition was a little below my present state, to be familiar with.

  • The child's heart was touched by the idea of hunger, and her little arm was outstretched ready for the moment her mother's hurried steps took her brushing past the startled, trembling Philip.

  • The doctor's heart was touched, in spite of the nurse's accusations against the scolding husband.

  • The joy of the mother's heart was great on meeting her son.

  • They said you were not here," murmured Jenny, "and my heart was in despair.

  • Nina's heart was warm, and her impulses generous.

  • Le Bourdon's heart was light, after his hazards and escape, and his spirits rose as his narrative proceeded.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heart was" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    clear the; color scheme; direct opposition; getting through; given state; heart ache; heart beat; heart beats; heart disease; heart from; heart full; heart gave; heart leaped; heart like; heart will; hearted fellow; heartily glad; heartily wish; hearty cheer; hearty meal; march from; mash them; pari passu; routine work; square foot; winter night