What is "heavyhearted"

Usage examples of "heavyhearted".

I said stupidly, and sat grieving for the man I scarcely knew, truly heavyhearted to learn that he had died.

Mamercus promised, heavyhearted, and did much that day to safeguard the mobile and monetary property of Sulla, Scaurus, Drusus, the Servilii Caepiones, Dalmatica, Cornelia Sulla, and himself.

Warren about the Prelate, and all the things she had learned in talking with her, but she was heavyhearted, too, because she was going to have to ask him to go into hiding.

In that very same orchard behind his house, where once as a small boy he had seen Bird for the first time and had felt the tremor of joy of that adventure, he now paced back and forth in agitation, to the goat stall, to the kitchen window, to the rabbit coop and beyond, his Sunday coat grazing the hayrakes, pitchforks, and scythes hanging on the back wall of the barn -- upset and confused, almost intoxicated with thoughts, wishes, and resolutions, heavyhearted, thinking of Judas, a thousand heavy dream-ducats in the bag.

TWO DAYS HAD PASSED AND GENDIBAL FOUND HIMSELF NOT So MUCH heavyhearted as enraged.

She trod down, heavyhearted, as soulfully disappointed as she had known she would be.

He feels light-headed and heavyhearted all at once, as though his bodily parts were trying to go in two different directions at the same time.

But instead of the buoyant mood in which she had expected to be writing this morning, she felt heavyhearted and on the verge of tears, though she had been unable to shed the latter all through what had remained of the night after she had gone to bedalone.