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
The head of the poor young woman fell on her shoulder, and she shed bitter tears.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
At last he died; and Thekla was not to be comforted, but sat apart and shed bitter tears.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
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
