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my heart bleeds for you

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  1. I don't feel at all sorry for you, I don't sympathize, as in You only got a five percent raise? My heart bleeds for you. Originating in the late 1300s, this hyperbolic expression of sympathy has been used ironically since the mid-1700s.


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Poor Jack, my heart bleeds for you; but cheer up, and go on.

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

Remembering your kindness to me, my heart bleeds for you.

From For The Admiral by Marx, W.J.

Oh, Governor! my heart bleeds for you, and for what you have done, my poor fellow!

From The Haunted Homestead A Novel by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

Don’t cry, Prue; my heart bleeds for you when I listen to your sobs.

From The Hound From The North by Bull, Charles Livingston

Your intellect is touched!—I am sure my heart bleeds for you!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel

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