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
Many shed bitter tears, when they think of their former king.
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
My impetuous refusal did not satisfy him, and he wrote me a letter over which I shed bitter tears of indescribable feeling.
From Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
After her conventional evening at home, she shed bitter tears on her pillow.
From The Twelfth Hour by Leverson, Ada
