"With most heart-rending particulars," said BenChaim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference

But a yet more heart-rending loss was in store for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

What a heart-rending prospect for him by whom this is occasioned!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference

A woman's heart-rending shriek rang through the cabin of the steamer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference

"The play offers both laughter and the heart-rending pain of living.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Help! I Need Somebody] Reference

Her cries in the night were heart-rending, when it was impossible to supply her wants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

Telling a heart-rending story and telling the whole story aren't always the same thing.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Born Alive' Baloney] Reference

The rest of this heart-rending story was gathered from the lips of their little protege.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

It was now a busy time at the hospitals, for they were full of the most heart-rending cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference

People had to suffer sometimes, but not such intense, heart-rending suffering as he now endured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

It was heart-rending to see the women rushing hither and thither, trying to save their few possessions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference

Upon seeing him, his wife uttered heart-rending cries: "Oh, Thomas, what are we going to do; our only son.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

Still, it is heart-rending to think I shall never rise above the sordid earth, always remain a mere groundling!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parables from Flowers] Reference

Your sympathies are never painfully engaged, even in recitals of experience that ought to be the most heart-rending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

One look at the young man and the next instant, with a heart-rending moan, she flung herself on her knees by his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

Before Chicken Little could reply something leaped into the midst of the little group and Pete gave a heart-rending squawk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

Then for the first time he drew his hands together with the daggers in them, and in the most heart-rending accents exclaimed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference

A heart-rending scene followed, last embraces were fervently given and returned, and dismal shrieks penetrated the atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference

She's been hilarious and heart-rending -- often at the same time -- and perhaps never more so than in "Something's Gotta Give.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweet On Keaton] Reference

The old man was spokesman and in his native visayan tongue made a heart-rending appeal for aid which we were powerless to give.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epoch in History] Reference

In the late '90s, fleeing North Koreans won local sympathy with their heart-rending tales of repression, famine, even cannibalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uneasy Neighbors] Reference

It was not the crying of a weak woman: these were heart-rending sounds, like the sobbing of a man who has never before known tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riders of the Silences] Reference

Prospective donors get heart-rending letters on behalf of starving children, with few or no facts about how the money is distributed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lighting The Amen Corner] Reference

These tartarean fumes, these dreadful forebodings, these heart-rending sights, and above all, my horrid dreams, I cannot endure them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

Rosemary to hand him a certain bottle and pour some of its contents on the cut, the little girl's shrieks of pain were heart-rending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rosemary] Reference

The bridge across the chasm that grew between them is made of words, a heart-rending collection of Fran's poetry titled "The Warrior.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warrior Returns] Reference

Thanks to Ali's heart-rending, first-person account, I now have a portrait of the real honest-to-goodness people like us who live in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

It was indeed a heart-rending scene to witness the lamentations of these slaves, all of whom had grown up together on the old homestead of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States] Reference

"It is she condemns me!" cried Magdalena; and, with another heart-rending exclamation of despair, she fell forward to the earth as if in violent convulsions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference

When the lifeless body of the husband and father was borne to his own dwelling, I have heard the scene described by those who witnessed it, as most heart-rending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories and Sketches] Reference

I wanted some such apology to myself for hating him, with that heart-rending cry rising up out of the earth, and ascending in accents of unutterable grief to heaven!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

For a space of seconds, there was no sound -- then Marguerre collapsed with the heart-rending wail of a hurt, terrified youngling, to lie sobbing brokenly at Joste's feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youngling A Terran Empire story] Reference

The enemy had escaped by the skin of its teeth and it was heart-rending to see Tom and Juarez being carried away from them at every stroke of the oars towards their black prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference