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
Was he not the silliest of lads in that so far from being contented he sometimes shed bitter tears over his lot?
From Quicksands by Streckfuss, Adolph
My impetuous refusal did not satisfy him, and he wrote me a letter over which I shed bitter tears of indescribable feeling.
From Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
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
