shed bitter tears

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I’m here to watch it happen, minute-by-minute—to pray for the long-awaited return to form, to exalt if it happens and to shed bitter tears if another failure awaits.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 17, 2019

She shed bitter tears, and I held her frail body, crying also for all these long years she had lived with the burden of these unspeakable events.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2017

Add to this that—whether through my own fault or not—her power over my mind was great, and I had none over hers, and it will be understood how she sometimes made me shed bitter tears.

From The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth

Now, indeed, she could groan most heartily when the old woman groaned, and shed bitter tears which rolled plentifully down the old woman's wrinkled cheeks and over her nose.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 by Various

And the Viking's wife shed bitter tears, and went away in anger and sorrow, passing under the partition of furs, which hung loose over the beam and divided the hall.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)