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heart-spent en · ADJ
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of heartspent.
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.
1885, Mrs. Frank Leslie, Ellery Sedgwick, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly - Volume 19, page 58:... others played hide and seek with ornaments, or stumbled, heart-spent, over a catch in her throat.
2004, Opus - Volumes 28-29, page 9:Then in a cautious drone, she looked away and began to share her heart-spent regrets.
2014, Catherine Kaufman, Beloved Healer, →ISBN:
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