Meanings of painful solicitude in English

So she poured out her heart, and he listened with painful solicitude.

The people are awaiting our action, with anxious and painful solicitude.

Silenced, but not convinced, I watched his course with painful solicitude.

Would you avoid painful solicitude, bitter reflection, heart-burning remorse, dreadful foreboding?

And besides, what fruit is there of this painful solicitude?

These circumstances must naturally create in every instance some degree of painful solicitude for its consequences.

The look of eager expectation in the faces of the people gave way to one of puzzled and painful solicitude.

The woman assumed a look of painful solicitude, and declared that "Madame did not look quite her best."

Those of them which have colonies in America look forward to what this country is capable of becoming, with painful solicitude.

It is the subject of the most painful solicitude with me, and I feel constrained to beg that you will countermand the withdrawal.

She watched every change of her countenance with painful solicitude, and endeavoured to cheer her with hopes, while her own mind was racked by anxiety.