Let us say that it was more or less like this: after removing the chains from the slaves, feeding them, providing clothing, and explaining with great difficulty that they were free, they had witnessed a heartrending scene when the baby that had been so ill on arrival died.

He found it "the most heartrending scene that I ever witnessed".

The heartrending scene of reconciliation between father and estranged daughter was only a preview of the sorrow we now witness.

There was a bloody heartrending scene, despite the Raja's skill at handling such situations.

In "Ulysses," one of Joyce's Dubliners, Mr. Kernan, hears the news from New York and discusses with the publican Mr. Crimmins the "heartrending scenes" in the papers: "Men trampling down women and children.

There were many heartrending scenes along the way.

It was a heartrending scene that deserved privacy.

Shall we extract Mr. Pickwick's masterly description of that heartrending scene?

A Struggle for Food In Gonaïves, the distribution of food has created heartrending scenes.

Her husband, who had met him often, liked the boy and spoke well of his promise, but she could not help thinking of the heartrending scenes before the betrothal ceremony had taken place.