Meanings of wrung the heart in English

The pathos of her would have wrung the heart of a devil.

For just a moment the thought wrung the heart of youth and love.

A great anguish seized and wrung the heart of Clelia Alba.

Had Felix triumphed he would never have wrung the heart of this man.

And she broke forth into cries and lamentations that wrung the heart of Oriana.

His eyes had a glazed, far-sighted appearance, that wrung the heart of the man who loved him.

It wrung the heart of the honest amiable gentlewoman to have her daughter do this; but the h.a.g.

That look wrung the heart of the faithful woman, who had trained her and loved her from a child.

And placid as she was, she made a little gesture of argument, of which the pathos wrung the heart.

Ah, Mac-Nab, you little knew how you wrung the heart of your master when you talked in that strain!

In the eleventh century they wrung the heart of every man-at-arms in Europe, whose school was the field of battle and the hand-to-hand fight.

With stern grief the Sheik listened to the moans of pain that burst from the suffering lad and wrung the heart of the father.

Still they persevered: and no tear, no lamentation, betrayed the anguish that wrung the heart of Oriana, while she believed that all was in vain.

He was very brave about it, however, and wrung the heart of Doctor Suydam by the uncomplaining fortitude with which he bore examination after examination.