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
She sat down and shed bitter tears of sorrow and mortification.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
Was he not the silliest of lads in that so far from being contented he sometimes shed bitter tears over his lot?
From Quicksands by Streckfuss, Adolph
Getting himself into his coat in such a violent fashion as would make his tailor shed bitter tears over the cruel straining of that garment.
From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe
