shed bitter tears

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.

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.

The Russians had already shed bitter tears on Tuesday when they allowed the Americans to scoop the team gold after imploding on the floor.

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.

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.