shed bitter tears
Example Sentences
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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
The next morning she realised that those thanks had been darling Miss Blake’s farewell, and shed bitter tears; but for the moment she was filled with complaisance.
From The Independence of Claire by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
He ran off; Clara, deeply offended, shed bitter tears, and sobbed aloud: "Ah, he has never loved me, for he does not understand me."
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various
Over Alexander's letter Miss Frost shed bitter tears.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
