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 next morning she realised that those thanks had been darling Miss Blake’s farewell, and shed bitter tears; but for the moment she was filled with complaisance.
From The Independence of Claire by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
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.
From A Russian Gentleman by Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)
Millions of people sought to enter it, but could not, and shed bitter tears of disappointment.
From Modern Saints and Seers by Marrett, Evan
