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Updated: May 11, 2025
Her heart beat fast, and she took an involuntary step forward. There was no doubt about it. A dim moving light shone from the lower windows of the cottage. Her first wild thought was that her lover had himself returned, and a thrill of intense joy passed through her whole being, only to die away before the cold chill of a heart-sickening dread.
How shocking to the man of sensibility! How mortifying and heart-sickening to the intellectual, the artless, the fallen fair! Among these manuscripts were many the production of highly cultivated minds. They were calculated to excite the sympathy of the brother the parent the husband.
Such heart-sickening waiting waiting! and meanwhile that intolerable treadmill! It drives me wild! I am so full of life, of passion; and to be dragged back and back and stamped on! Each day I feel myself weaker; each day my power and my joy are going. Let me go let me go! Is my inspiration of no value at all, my ardor, my tenderness, my faith, all nothing? You treat me as if I were an ox!
Maria's ever-flickering smile seemed to throw a sun-beam over the darkest moor, even in those darkest hours of doubt, heart-sickening anxiety, and grief at the neglect which they experienced; while Henry's well-informed good sense not only availed to cheer the sad Maria, but made every rock a point of interest, and showed every little flower a miracle of wisdom.
Waverley, that you should feel a present momentary disappointment than the long and heart-sickening griefs which attend a rash and ill-assorted marriage!
It was heart-sickening to see these bickerings over the grave of one so loving and so beloved; and very trying to be always on the alert to obviate the snappings that might at any time become a sharp dissension; but nothing very distressing actually arose until the last day before the funeral, when the three cousins were sitting together in the morning-room; James writing letters.
By one precipitate act, I have involved myself in a long train of loathsome and heart-sickening consequences.
The throng had immensely increased; the clowns and harlequins ran shrieking up and down, and leaped over one another's heads. It was useless. He went back to Imogene with a heart-sickening fear that she too might have vanished. But she was still there. "You ought to have come sooner," she said gaily. "That red mask has been here again. He looked as if he wanted to make love to me this time.
Patrick's, where we had a heart-sickening view of the poorest of the poor. All the recollections of poverty which I had ever beheld, seemed to disappear in comparison with what was then before me.
Two or three were very reticent, one saying, "No one here shall ever know my real name, native place, or business of life." It was heart-sickening to listen to their tales of wrong and suffering, clearly showing that "the way of the transgressor is hard." Sin has a most debasing effect upon its victims. Three-fourths or more doubtless came to prison directly or indirectly through strong drink.
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