heart-spent
English
Adjective
heart-spent (comparative more heart-spent, superlative most heart-spent)
- Alternative form of heartspent
- 1885, Mrs. Frank Leslie & Ellery Sedgwick, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly - Volume 19, page 58:
- So many waves have not the ocean floods, As my rent heart hath torments all the night And heart-spent sighs when Phoebus brings the light.
- 2004, Opus - Volumes 28-29, page 9:
- ... others played hide and seek with ornaments, or stumbled, heart-spent, over a catch in her throat.
- 2014, Catherine Kaufman, Beloved Healer, →ISBN:
- Then in a cautious drone, she looked away and began to share her heart-spent regrets.
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