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Example sentences for "sinking heart"

  • Mona cried, with a sinking heart, as she saw the grave expression that settled over the doctor's face the moment he reached his patient's side.

  • But just then she heard voices in the hall below, and, believing that Mrs. Montague had returned, she turned back and sat down again with a sinking heart, assured that her resolve had come too late.

  • At last I leaned in a cold perspiration against the edge of one of the glass cabinets, and gave it up in despair with a sinking heart.

  • Edie laid down the telegram with a sinking heart.

  • He took as long as he could over dressing in order to put back the moment of seeing her, and when at last he went into the dining-room it was with a sinking heart.

  • Philip looked at her with a sinking heart.

  • He awoke in the morning with a sinking heart because he must go through another day of drudgery.

  • Burton, with a sinking heart, and a premonition of evil, took the place by his side.

  • It was not a graceful proceeding, and Burton, with a sinking heart, remembered that this was one of his employer's old habits.

  • Mr. Waddington must have made a mistake," Burton replied, with a sinking heart.

  • With a sinking heart and a sad foreboding of evil I left her with her tirewomen.

  • It was with a sinking heart and a vague feeling of impending disaster that he saw them at last as minute specks in the distance, walking townward and disappearing amid the crowd who lined the beach.

  • The wanderer turned down beside it, and made his way with eager steps but a sinking heart in the direction of the line of cottages which he used to know so well.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after time; afternoon service; before long; best understood; better make; common ground; common water; dressed himself; fallen timber; hard voice; higher temperatures; him and; man for; mighty hard; more worthy; occasion might; silicic acid; sinking condition; sinking fund; sinking heart; unmarried women; well know; western frontier; when boiled