the heart failing
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Roget 837: the countenance falling; the heart failing, the heart sinking within one; a plague of sighing and grief" [Henry IV]; thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy" [Henry IV]; the sickening pang of hope deferred" [Scott].
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