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She can do anything, but if it’s a heartaching love song, you feel it in her voice.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025

You're at the heartbreaking, heartaching age, and no time to spend on old duffers like me when young beauties are drooping on every bough.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert

It is impossible for me now to recollect all the perplexing thoughts that passed through my mind during that forenoon; it was a day of heartaching to me.

From The Fugitive Blacksmith or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington by Pennington, James W. C.

At the end of that time I shall have finished my reading—yes, we will do it, and this heartaching will be over.

From The Return of the Native by Hardy, Thomas