From that day on, I'd put all heartbreak in a special box, nail down the lid, and act as though it wasn't there.
She never ceased to curse La Corriveau for that felon stroke of her mad stiletto which changed what might have passed for a simple death by heartbreak into a foul assassination.
This unison of the hail to Christ upon His sacrificial entry into Jerusalem and the Virgilian heartbreak over the young Marcellus, shows how Dante rose in his combinings, and how potent an element of his imagination was the antique.
Neither was the heartbreak in his tone when he spoke of his boy.
He was in the little old Missioner's cabin, with thunder and lightning rending earth and sky outside and Nada was in his arms, her lips against his, the piteous heartbreak of despair in her eyes.
In his dog soul he wanted her, just as Jolly Roger wanted her with all the yearning and heartbreakof the man.
Because of heartbreak and ruin and irreparable loss must she fall?
If heartbreaktore the scales from my eyes, perhaps that is well for me.
But there was one crusade in which there was neither romance nor glory--nothing except heartbreak and anguish, and the long torture of the years.
Every morning at four o'clock the dogs of Constantinople turn their faces toward Mecca and howl their heartbreak to the sky.
It was pretty tough--her little heartbreakwhen he went by her without taking her up!
Two burning shadows were her eyes, Wherefrom the maiden love, that smiled A heartbreak smile of severed ties, Gazed with a wan surprise.
Yet beyond these transient excitements lie the saddest tragedies-disease and suffering, unwished childbirth, heartbreak and death.
The competitive system means great fluctuations in industry, constant anxiety, forced cut prices, and frequent failures, with their financial ruin and heartbreak to employers and loss of work to employees.
Once more she lapsed into silence and I could see the heartbreak showing through the armor of her flippant manner.
Her lawyer emphasized theheartbreak it was to her to learn that her adored husband had been led astray by her trusted friend.
He had his own heartbreak and pridebreak, but he was only a man and no sympathy need be wasted on him.
He waved his hand to her in a heartbreak of bemocked and benighted tenderness and closed the door.
Men did not hear from their wives, and, discouraged and disheartened, decided that the women had died or had forgotten; so they went the way of the country, and it often came to pass that Heartbreak Trail led to the Land of Heartbreak.
I had heard these hard truths of the Trail of Heartbreak before; but having been worded more vaguely, they had not impressed me as they did now, spoken with the plain, honest directness of the old trail days.
At White Pass City that was, the old Trail ofHeartbreak leads up the canyon of the north fork of the Skaguay, directly away from the railroad.
He told the story as truthfully as might be, without giving its real explanation--his heartbreak over Mabel.
It irritated her to think that her heartbreak showed in her face.
At first, to be sure, there had been no special outward and visible sign of heartbreak except the thunderstorm shadows under the girl's blue eyes.
Then slowly, one by one, the events of the previous night came back to her in all their significance, and with a muffled scream of heartbreak she buried her face in the pillow.
What tragedy was written in those wavering lines; what heartbreak of going away from some dear hope and broken dream!
So have I seen a clear October pool, Cold, liquid topaz, set within the sear Gold of the woodland, tremorless and cool, Reflecting all the heartbreak of the year.
The soldier lover died ofheartbreak and despondency.
There was John Beaton's son; he killed a man, and died on the gallows-tree, to the shame and the heartbreak of his good father and mother.
Months went by and extended into years, and every day the girl climbed Heartbreak Hill to look seaward for some token of her lover.
Day after day, as he had hurried straight into the north, Billy's loneliness and heartbreak weighed more and more heavily upon him.
He had known loneliness, the heartbreak and the longing of it, in the black and silent chaos of the arctic night; he had almost gone mad of it, and he had seen Pelliter nearly die for a glimpse of the sun and the sound of a voice.
I have a horrible fear that my heart is broken, but that heartbreak is not like what I thought it must be.
But our ministers had not that sort of courage: neither Heartbreak House nor Horseback Hall had bred it, much less the suburbs.
Your house is not Heartbreak House: is it, Lady Utterword?
The place may be Heartbreak House to you, Miss Dunn, and to this gentleman from the city who seems to have so little self-control; but to me it is only a very ill-regulated and rather untidy villa without any stables.
The Wicked Half Century It is difficult to say whether indifference and neglect are worse than false doctrine; but Heartbreak House and Horseback Hall unfortunately suffered from both.
That is why I had to withhold Heartbreak House from the footlights during the war; for the Germans might on any night have turned the last act from play into earnest, and even then might not have waited for their cues.
