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
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
At last he died; and Thekla was not to be comforted, but sat apart and shed bitter tears.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
