"all of a heap" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle",
          "text": "I walked straight in expecting to find her waiting for me in the front room, — I was struck all of a heap when I found she wasn’t there.",
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          "text": "1916, Algernon Blackwood, The Dance of Death, first published in The Quest: A Quarterly Review\nWhat caught me all of a heap was that million-dollar sense of beauty, youth, and happiness."
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          "ref": "2012, Joseph Lewis French, Masterpieces of Mystery, page 218",
          "text": "All of a sudden he remembered the spooks, and it knocked him all of a heap.",
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        "Into a sudden state of collapse or astonishment."
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        "(colloquial, idiomatic) Into a sudden state of collapse or astonishment."
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