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heart stands still



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Idioms and Phrases

see heart misses a beat .
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Example Sentences

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Her spirit is breaking under this sense of desolation, when suddenly her heart stands still as she hears a voice utter her own name “Hagar, Sarai’s maid.â€

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When a mother sees her children scratch and strike, when her ear catches the bitter words of passion between brothers, her heart stands still with grief and dread.

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O God make tolerable, Make tolerable the end that awaits for me, And give me courage to die when the time comes, When the time comes as it must, however it comes, That I shrink not nor scream, gripped by the jaws of the vice; For the thought of it turns me sick, and my heart stands still, Knocks and stands still.

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He wants nothing, he troubles about nothing; his heart stands still, only his eye lives.

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He does not complain, but he spends a great deal of the day in bed; and he is so white, so worn, that my heart stands still to look at him.

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