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
After her conventional evening at home, she shed bitter tears on her pillow.
From The Twelfth Hour by Leverson, Ada
Getting himself into his coat in such a violent fashion as would make his tailor shed bitter tears over the cruel straining of that garment.
From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe
In a flash I saw life spread out before me as it really is, full of sufferings and frequent partings, and I shed bitter tears.
From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo)
