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heart-rending |
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heart-rending Adjective causing great sadness and pity: a heart-rending story
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| I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood. It was a heart-rending spectacle, but the audience, seeing that the play had stopped, became angry and began to yell: But suddenly she heard the rustle of a skirt, and with it the sound of heart-rending, smothered sobbing, and felt arms about her neck. |
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