It's probably where the term heartsick came from. From Wordnik.com. [Annie, Get Your Guy & Messing Around With Max]
Now if I could only get rid of this "heartsick" feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Why is] Reference
On his Facebook page Sunday night, after Manning had been detained, Lamo said he was "heartsick" for the specialist and his family. From Wordnik.com. [Online contact says he turned in analyst who wanted to leak information] Reference
First, Tatum just doesn't have the chops to be the kind of heartsick, wounded heartthrob the material demands. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
The family was very gentle with the heartsick girl. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
He got more heartsick with every monthly statement. From Wordnik.com. [The Claim Game] Reference
Elizabeth shrank in a heartsick way from the contest. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Women, heartsick and exhausted, could walk no farther. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate] Reference
WALTERS: Oh, I'm heartsick, mostly for his wife, Lisa. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2009] Reference
Early in the morning Philip wakes, unrefreshed and heartsick. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
A sense of shame at such conduct made me faint and heartsick. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Don, so many people heartsick today over the death of Heath Ledger. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2008] Reference
Disappointed and heartsick over the turn of events, Susan searched for. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
Sophia felt heartsick as Rachel's eyes opened wide at the sudden light. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
She felt more lonely and heartsick than she ever felt before in her life. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
CLINTON: We are just heartsick over this loss of life in the line of duty. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2008] Reference
What would I do if I were you and were lonely and discouraged and heartsick?. From Wordnik.com. [Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens] Reference
She had endured it for four years and she was worn heartsick with the strain. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
I had been there before, but never in such a heartsick and forlorn condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate] Reference
Well, the truth could mean a Purple Heart and peace for two heartsick parents. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2008] Reference
We are heartsick today that Terri has stepped into eternity, we believe unnecessarily. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2005] Reference
It made us heartsick to look at them, so emaciated were they from ill-usage and neglect. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
When I saw the finished book, I was heartsick at how poorly the photo had been reproduced. From Wordnik.com. [James Gavin: Abbey Lincoln and Herman Leonard: Truthtellers in Jazz] Reference
He was alone and could hardly drag one foot after the other, he was so weary and heartsick. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
I broke bread and tasted salt with you, but I am too heartsick to visit, or to say good-bye. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate] Reference
"That could be my house," she said, and she switched the set off, too heartsick to watch more. From Wordnik.com. ['We Are Not Refugees'] Reference
Newly arrived colonists, perhaps lonely and heartsick, will not find it quite so hard to go to. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
And the crowd who had gathered to hear a little harmless fun now stood petrified and heartsick. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
First, he was heartsick for her and the sad state of things back where she had come to him from. From Wordnik.com. [Begonia {part six}] Reference
Whoever he is and wherever he is, there are times when he is restless and heartsick and homesick. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
Disillusioned and heartsick, she was for the first time sadly disappointed in her dearest friend. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
So he lay heartsick and puzzled on his hill top and wished he had some one all his own to talk to. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
And the people, grown weary and heartsick, overthrew King James and put William III. on the throne. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Manhattan] Reference
For his part, he was heartsick that he turned out not to be half so clever as he'd fancied himself. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
It was a hopeless and a heartsick man who landed at last and began his new duties at the Brazilian Capital. From Wordnik.com. [The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country] Reference
It was a hard life, and after a time became very monotonous to the dwarf, who was often heartsick of it all. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
They look to me for help, and I have to turn away heartsick at my want of ability to relieve their sufferings. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
She sobbed convulsively, heartsick in her helplessness to ease this young brother to whom she had been half mother. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
A moment more and he stood in her presence, mute, shocked, heartsick at the change that this month of agony had wrought in her. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
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