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
Though his wife, Arina Vassilyevna, shed bitter tears and would not be comforted, Stepan Mihailovitch sent his son into the Army as soon as he was sixteen.
From A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov
She sat down and shed bitter tears of sorrow and mortification.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
Philippa shed bitter tears at the thought of parting from her boy, but the Hermit insisted that it was the right thing to do, though he was much perturbed at the sight of her distress.
From The Daughters of a Genius by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
