shed bitter tears
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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 Jules Lermina
Now, indeed, she could groan most heartily when the old woman groaned, and shed bitter tears which rolled plentifully down the old woman's wrinkled cheeks and over her nose.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 by Various
And when they saw the two ladies, they shed bitter tears.
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
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