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
Not knowing all this, Rotha shed bitter tears, it is true, but not despairing.
From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan
She shed bitter tears of penitence upon it for her disloyalty to the storm-tossed sailor, but rejoiced again when she saw the tall figure of the trapper coming down the trail.
From Duffels by Eggleston, Edward
Yet though she had shed bitter tears last night, she did not feel at all like crying now.
From Helen Grant's Schooldays by Douglas, Amanda M.
