sick at heart
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They seek to comfort her, sick at heart as she is, by diverting the blame from her who was forced to the doer of the wrong.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
"I am sick at heart at what we have done," he said.
From Salon • Aug. 2, 2019
Anyone who studies the conditions of life in Westeros comes away sick at heart.
From Slate • May 13, 2019
But they also would change our country in ways that should make us sick at heart.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2016
Behind my back, at the world’s end, my pale slightly glowing fat mother sleeps on, old, sick at heart, in our dingy underground room.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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