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
Millions of people sought to enter it, but could not, and shed bitter tears of disappointment.
From Modern Saints and Seers by Evan Marrett
He cared only to eat and sleep, but he knew he was in Noah's power, and he shed bitter tears when he saw the land appear again.
From Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Sol Aronson
He ran off; Clara, deeply offended, shed bitter tears, and sobbed aloud: "Ah, he has never loved me, for he does not understand me."
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various
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