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Meanings of heartrending cry in English

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Usage of heartrending cry in English
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Sir Arthur uttered a heartrending cry and fell back in a faint.
The River of Darkness; Or, Under Africa
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There was a heartrending cry, and then a torrent of swift French:
The Rose of Old St. Louis
3
The young wife uttered a heartrending cry, and fell senseless on Serge's body.
Serge Panine — Volume 04
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Another cry, a prolonged, heartrending cry, reached his ears, his soul, his flesh.
Original Short Stories — Volume 08
5
Then suddenly a heartrending cry was heard in the crowd.
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
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Lady Jane uttered a heartrending cry, and sank down again, senseless and completely exhausted.
Henry VIII and His Court: A Historical Novel
7
With a last despairing effort he uttered a heartrending cry and disappeared beneath the waves.
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
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A pitiful long neck emerged from it with the heartrending cry of a beast in despair.
Atlantida
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Suddenly there broke into the painful hubbub on the steamer's deck a faint, heartrending cry of "A-a-ah!"
Through Russia
10
He flung his arms out in a gesture of despair, giving up his ghastly pretence with a low, heartrending cry:
'Twixt Land & Sea: Tales
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And suddenly she uttered a cry, a heartrending cry, and I rushed up to the bed, with a candle in my hand.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4
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Even in delirium, her thoughts are only for the absent one; her words, that insistent, heartrending cry for "Richard, Richard, Richard."
The Alchemist's Secret
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I rolled about on the ground, uttering the most heartrending cries.
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
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Then a crash was heard, followed by most heartrending cries.
Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life
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Her heartrending cries had so confused him, he was seized before he could raise his gun.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
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The insects stung her to death, and the callous people paid no heed to her heartrending cries.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
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