heart-spent

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   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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   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