Pierre Adet's presence inside the coach which had brought about his daughter's mysterious illness and that heartrending look of nameless horror which had dwelt in her eyes ever since.
And, while I was there, she gave utterance to a heartrending scream that struck me right in the breast like a bullet.
The dumb girl's features became more expressive than ever; a heartrending memory seemed to agitate her.
At sight of Frederic, Sister Anne uttered a heartrending shriek; she ran to him, threw herself into his arms, pointed to her son, and lost consciousness.
A heartrending shriek burst from the young mother's lips; she could see nothing but her son, whom she had left in that room, her son, whom the flames were perhaps already consuming!
Dubourg sat up in bed; he raised his eyes heaven-ward, uttered two or three plaintive groans, pulled his nightcap still further over his eyes, and began his tale in a most heartrending tone.
Her smile serves but to veil untold sorrows, anxiety for the future, even heartrending cares.
He is quite pathetic over himself, and can describe with heartrending words the evils that befall him when others use against him successfully any of the arts which he practises himself.
I am so lonely and----" Heartrendingsobs choked her voice.
Gitl closed her hands upon the paper as she had been instructed; but at the same moment she gave a violent tremble, and with a heartrending groan fell on the witness in a fainting swoon.
This is not so bad; the chorus can pass muster; at least, it does not use such heartrending gestures.
No hysterics, no heartrending reproaches; she said farewell with a smile!
Haidee answered with a heartrending expression, "Why should he understand this, my sister?
In the midst of all this frightful tumult and these terrific cries, two reports, fearfully distinct, followed by two shrieks more heartrending than all, froze me with terror.
She hardly heeded him, beyond that persistent appeal, terrible in its heartrending pathos: "He'll not die .
And then he added, with a heartrending accent, as he again buried his face in his hands, "Dead!
The inundations: "It is heartrending to see all this and to be able to do so little.
The emperor wrote: "It is heartrending to see all this and to be able to do so little.
Not a single remark came from their lips after reading the article; they only just smiled their two heartrending smiles; then they laid the paper down again.
Yet these same relatives of hers sat still and scarcely looked her way, though she glanced repeatedly and with heartrending appeal in their direction.
This to him was the greatest trial he had yet felt; long and heartrending was their embrace.
Many heartrending scenes were witnessed along the route, as the torrential rain and the vast zone of mud increased the misery of the moving multitude.
I made a quick trip through this building and the memory of it is one of the most heartrending pictures I have of the war.
All these women and children are ordered back, heartrending though it may be to refuse them liberty.
She felt, with dreadful heartrending certainty, she was his with all her love.
Lady Jane uttered a heartrending cry, and sank down again, senseless and completely exhausted.
Geraldine writhed at his feet like a worm trodden upon; and her groans of distress and her smothered moans were the heartrending accompaniment of his melancholy words.
Down below, after raising a loud cry of heartrending distress, he had said nothing.
I shall not attempt to describe fully the terrible and heartrending experience of that morning; but two or three of the scenes that I was compelled to witness seem, even now, to be etched on my memory in lines of blood.
Then, in the midst of all these merry figures which fell from his pencil and pen came heartrending and bitter sorrows; his wife and three children died one after the other; when the last died, he himself fell ill.
Suddenly she saw the corpse, stopped short, clasped her hands and raised both her arms while she uttered a sharp, heartrending cry--the cry of a wounded animal.
The other one also was dead--the deserted one, who had attained through her musical periods that are alive in the memories of all, periods of triumph and of despair, intoxicating triumph and heartrending despair.
Then a great cry issued from the top of the house; it was a clamor of men shouting heartrending calls of anguish and of terror.
I felt that a veil had been torn from my eyes and that I was going to make a horrible and heartrending discovery.
Often, during office hours, while his colleagues were discussing the topics of the day, his eyes would suddenly fill with tears, and he would give vent to his grief in heartrending sobs.
Another cry, a prolonged, heartrending cry, reached his ears, his soul, his flesh.
The woman exclaimed in a heartrending voice: "Paul, Paul, stop him; make him be quiet!
The great brutal facts of nature, or of humanity, may call forth cries of horror or indignation, but do not cause us that tightening of the heart, that shudder that goes down your spine at sight of certain little heartrending episodes.
