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Example sentences for "shed tears"

  • Sheridan, when those words of the young poet were told him, shed tears.

  • She laid her aching head upon his bosom, and, with her arms around his neck, shed tears as freely as she did the day that she was separated from him, as she thought, forever.

  • He shed tears, upbraided himself for his obstinacy, and refused to be comforted.

  • I believed him to be sincere, and I shed tears of joy as I thanked him for having yielded to my intreaties.

  • The next day the captain of the vessel, to my astonishment, came to me as I lay on the forecastle, and begging my pardon for the cruelty that he had been guilty of, shed tears over me, and ordered me to be carried to his cabin.

  • Speaking these words he shed tears in abundance, and Schemselnihar was not able to restrain hers.

  • On the one hand they cause me to shed tears in abundance; and on the other, inflame my heart with a fire which supports it, and prevents my dying of grief.

  • At this question, the lady of beauty calling to mind her wedding night, which had been succeeded by a long widowhood, began to shed tears, repining bitterly at the loss of so handsome a husband as Buddir ad Deen.

  • When he came to Alexandria, where Pompey was already murdered, he would not look upon Theodotus, who presented him with his head, but taking only his signet, shed tears.

  • He then applied himself to his devotions with much fervency, and then submitted to his fate, but when the cap was drawn over his eyes he seemed to shed tears abundantly.

  • As death approached he shed tears abundantly, but was so very ignorant that he expressed no other marks of penitence for his offences.

  • The king, when he saw his grandsons, shed tears, and after he had questioned the Brahman, and had heard the state of the case from him, he was for a long time divided between joy and grief.

  • When Devasmita asked her why she shed tears, she said with affected reluctance: "My friend, look at this bitch weeping outside here.

  • This and many other such laments he uttered in such a way that all there began to shed tears.

  • Went so far as to shed tears, his most difficult feat of all Were my generals as great fools as some of my Ministers What they need is abstinence, prohibitions, thwartings What do young women stand in need of?

  • At this she began to shed tears, and said, "Ah!

  • Firmian was the first to shed tears; his friend was the next, and his angry spouse wept, with the latter.

  • To shed tears of gratitude one knows not why.

  • For the first time in my life I shed tears of sorrow and of anger, when I heard my companions scoffing at me.

  • He shed tears as he embraced me, and I promised to be his friend.

  • He shed tears in abundance, and what he said was mostly extravagant, his ideas having no sequence or connection.

  • Her emotion, an inexpressible charm which seemed to flow from her lips and to enforce conviction, made me shed tears of love and sympathy.

  • At the same time I was genuinely touched and penitent, I used to shed tears and, of course, deceived myself, though I was not acting in the least and there was a sick feeling in my heart at the time.

  • He shed tears, wrung his hands, wanted to write, was absolutely set on finishing his two pages.

  • She repressed an inclination to shed tears.

  • She knew that it would have done her a world of good if she had been able to shed tears; but the founts of emotion were dry within her.

  • I have seen old priests, to whom I opened my mind on that subject, shed tears of sorrow on the injury this new dogma would do to the church.

  • But God knoweth, that though the regret of having grieved my benefactor and father caused me to shed tears at that moment, yet I wept much more on perceiving that I would no more be permitted to read His Holy Word.

  • The reading of that page made me shed tears of shame, and shook my faith to its foundation.

  • Thus it was that the cruel and perfidious Church of Rome took away from my young heart the good and merciful Jesus, whose love and compassion had caused me to shed tears of joy when I was beside my mother.

  • My eyes are more accustomed to shed tears than to direct imperious glances, and my hands are folded with more pleasure than they are raised in anger.

  • The most sensitive began to shed tears, remembering some gallant adventure of their youthful days.

  • Some were already beginning to shed tears, putting their handkerchiefs to their eyes; others were whispering about the preparations for the festival, and the circumstances which had led the young woman to take the veil.

  • When Soliman read over the leaf of the white book, he shed tears abundantly, and his empress Solimanitza came to him and questioned him: 'Why do you weep, emperor Soliman?

  • This man's sons agreed to go to him one by one, and ask him why his right eye laughed and his left eye shed tears.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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