What is "heartsick"

Usage examples of "heartsick".

Heartsick, weary, and footsore she felt, when she reached the cottage where Francis was standing at the door to welcome her return.

Lily had known without being told that the heartsick and love worn Ginger required this lace- and chintz-rich, uncommonly easeful room with its skirted dressing table and silly tuft of dressing-table chair tucked into the voluminous skirt, and the rows of pretty silver boxes set across the mirrored top to contain her cotton puffs and her eyebrow pencils and her many, many shades of rouge, which blushed from the least to the deepest of reds.

Stuck miles from her family and exhausted from racing up and down Interstate 95 for her flight assignments, Rachel was heartsick and terribly lonely.

Heartsick, Baram can recognize the purple of Damei blood and lighter, oily streaks that must be the back exudates, the Stars Tears stuff.

And at the moment, weary, heartsick, Drew didn't care about self-denial.

Not only will your patience be worn thin by the volunteer who will do anything except work, you will be driven to distraction by the arrogance of pressure groups, made heartsick by the outright sell-out, and astonished and hurt by dirty tricks ranging from torn-down signs to the complete lie, the planted scandal, and the falsified document.

I was heartsick about losing it because Daddy had given it to me, and because, just a year earlier, the only other valuable thing I owned, the Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone Mother and Daddy had given me in 1963, had been stolen out of my car in Washington.

Within those almost-walls, his sense of balance abandoned him utterly, leaving him nauseous and heartsick, holding onto Julie.

Heartsick, he challenged her to confess that Eierkopf, not himself, had been her undoer -- or else some third party with whom she had secretly consorted.