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 Marquis knelt in silence for some minutes, while Labarre shed bitter tears.
From The Son of Monte-Cristo by Lermina, Jules
"Gone, is Gabriel gone?" murmured Evangeline piteously; she could not hide her disappointment, and shed bitter tears.
From The Children's Longfellow Told in Prose by Hayman, Doris
He cared only to eat and sleep, but he knew he was in Noah's power, and he shed bitter tears when he saw the land appear again.
From Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Aronson, Sol
