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 Susan Warner
It was said that the greatly grieved woman shed bitter tears, then and there.
From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
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.
From A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov