In her utter heartsick shrinking from the consequences of her answer she had a premonition of the weakness that was to make the combat so unequal.
Melton labored in heartsick pity to remove her fixed idea, which soon became a monomania, that she alone was to blame for the Judge's death.
Mrs. Ayers, the housekeeper, sometimes made her heartsick with innocent revelations.
He was heartsick and weary, and the soft, balmy, night-air seemed filled with depressing influences.
It makes meheartsick to see the utter ruin we will be plunged in if forced to run to-night.
I was never separated from mother for so long before; and I am homesick, and heartsick about her.
What child could know of the heartsick longing for affection and a but little understood freedom, the daily coercion, the refusal of her husband to speak kindly or to meet her eye with a smile?
Elizabeth shrank in a heartsick way from the contest.
This came as a shock, and with all the hurt and heartsick worry which the mention of finances always brought to the girl.
We were wet with storm, lean with hunger and illness, and heartsick at our bad luck.
Other men grew heartsick at the terrible storm and the long voyage and no sight of land, and they turned back to Iceland.
Heartsick and wretched, St. Genis, after several hours of weary waiting, did ultimately obtain permission to enter the city by the ferry on the south side of the city.
With a tired sigh he returned to the door and once more took up hisheartsick vigil.
Lad's heartsick aspect showed the more intensely in such company.
Surely, there was nothing in such a death to warrant the silly grief that was ours, nor the heartsick gloom that overhung The Place!
The heartsick prisoners smiled at the poor jest and more than one man turned eagerly as Jonas unlocked the door and admitted the Jewish broker, a prisoner like themselves, yet bringing with him the free air of the outside world.
It was a hopeless and a heartsick man who landed at last and began his new duties at the Brazilian Capital.
The long afternoon had shown sights as desolate and in some cases more horrible than those he had seen in the morning and he was glad to find a little village where he might sleep, wearied and heartsick with the sights of the day.
She knew that the poor Atom could not understand; that she was at war with Providence in a vague, bewildered way, and that she was heartsick for her country.
Pip, the adored first- born son, lay dangerously ill, and the whole household moved on tiptoe, heartsick with dread.
Now and then she stopped short, heartsick and trembling; once her lips quivered and her eyes filled, but for the most part she did not pause.
Heartsick over her failure to get through the lines her warning to Kilpatrick, she had felt the responsibility of young Dahlgren's tragic death.
Just outside of Richmond the engine broke down and the heartsick family sat in the dismal day-coach all night.
Under the urgent necessity of driving the Union army back from its position at Chattanooga and heartsick with eternal wrangling of the opposition, Davis reluctantly ordered Joseph E.
Heartsick and trembling, I glanced aside at my companions.
He ran a little way down the hollow, heartsick with horror and cold with dread.
I broke bread and tasted salt with you, but I am too heartsick to visit, or to say good-bye.
I had been there before, but never in such a heartsick and forlorn condition.
What was she doing in this desolate street of little shops, faint and heartsick and alone!
On her earnest, exquisite face the occasion had stamped a certain soberness, she was neither hostess nor guest to-night; just a heartsick wife under the shadow of anger and shame.
Besides, I've a raging headache, and I'm too utterly heartsick even to resent your insults.
To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.
There was to be noheartsick shame, no stuffiness in my life any more forever!
He always did that when he came back, and he always felt nearly the same heartsick shrinking away from its cold dreariness.
Thoughts of that kind are not the best medicine for sleeplessness, and it was long after midnight before Mrs. Singleton Corey drifted insensibly from heartsickreflections into the inconsequent imaginings of dreams.
But such as it was, and it gleamed richly enough on the eyes of the onlookers, she shook it out with a flourish and gave no sign of heartsick qualms.
She said the grim words over and over, handling them withheartsick recklessness as a desperate man might handle the black, ugly objects with smoking fuses which he knows carry death.
The heartsick excitement of a man on the crest of some moral crisis looked out luridly from his eyes.
But almost at once came the stab that Felix Morrison was not the man who was looking at her, and the heartsick recollection that he would never again be there to see her.
I am heartsick with all this hiding, and--and deceit.
So she tried to hide from him how weary and heartsick inaction was making her, how hard it was for her to stay alone so many hours each day.
