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
The poor settlers shed bitter tears as they parted for ever with their past life, with the church in which they had been christened and married, and with the graves of their fathers and grandfathers.
From A Russian Gentleman by Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)
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)
