Diphtheria, which was almost epidemic that winter, visited the staff of the paper he was on, and in consequence he was temporarily assigned to its dramatic work--thus he wrote another of the notices of my first venture in the tearful drama.
Looking up with tearful eyes, she clasped her hands, and let her buttercups and bluebells fall to the ground unheeded.
And I said I thought she could do it,' said Molly with tearful eyes; 'but I did ask her to come back at the corner.
Indeed, it was generally a tearful business, after which everybody was glad to retire into corners to subside privately and dry themselves.
That's what I told him," she whimpered, bestowing a tearful glance on her husband.
Rill had eyes only for the half naked, plump limbs and body of the little girl, or she might have seen something in Janice's tearful glance to make her suspicious.
Rill, tearful herself, "there is such gossip in Polktown.
In the afternoon, when Henry returned from his office, his wife met him with tearful eyes, and informed him that her mother was filled with rage at the mention of the removal of Clotelle from her premises.
And the mischievous Harvey Dole--could it be the same youth who stood there now with tearful eyes, chanting his longings to be pure and sanctified and heavenly.
She could not have feigned sentiments which she did not feel, yet it was invariably the case that, as she rose in meeting, her usually cheerful face became in the highest degree tearful and lugubrious.
My father assured my mother, though with trembling lip and tearful eye, that "God would temper the wind to the shorn lamb.
Then he gave the child to his mother, and she clasped him to her breast and smiled a tearful smile.
Behind him the doctor gave whispered orders to Mandy and two tearful women neighbors who had quietly slipped into the house.
A step behind him did not interrupt the soft pleadings of the tearful voice.
With the profound unselfishness of true, strong love, he forgot all his own griefs when he looked at those lovely, tearful eyes, saw the mournful droop of those lips.
He stood by her, gazing at her with his tearful eyes, not venturing a word, not even finding courage to thank her.
Chavvehle rose to light the candles, and the women started and wiped their tearful eyes, so that Chavveh should not remark them.
He gazed round with sleepy eyes, and they fell on some white heaps wrapped in robes and prayer-scarfs, while from their midst came the low, hoarse, tearful voices of two or three men who had not gone to sleep and were repeating Psalms.
If they had turned back then and there for thirteen more days of weary sea, Jean would have felt rewarded for her journey by the half-tearful rapture which shone in her mother's face at that moment.
Papa drew the tearful pleader down by his side on the lounge, and smoothed away the disheveled golden ringlets from the flushed little face.
Queenie looked at Sydney's tearful eyes and flushed cheeks, and her tender little heart melted at once.
Is there nothing tearful eye Can e'er dry, or hush the sigh?
Mrs. Rothesay positively refused to see or notice her child, scorning alike the tearful entreaties and the stern reproaches of the nurse.
But for your sake only, dear Michael," cried his sister; and her tearful eyes spoke the truth.
Victor listened to him for a long time, in order to still his beating heart; at last, with tearful eyes, he went round the house, and would fain have fallen speechlessly and blindly on the necks of the youth and of Emanuel.
But when I think how joy is turned to woe, Remembering my short life and whence I fare, I stay my feet for anguish and despair, And cast my tearful eyes on earth below.
Then presently her nurse came for her to lie down before dinner, and she was inclined to be tearful and refuse to go till Michael made it clear that it was his express and sovereign will that she should do so.
As soon as Tom opened his eyes he saw the pale, tearfulfaces of Rudolph and Kitty.
Tom tried to answer her; but somehow his great faithful heart was overflowing, and he could only look at her with a tearful smile.
With many a frantic leap and bound he endeavored to draw Rudolph's attention, until, finally, the tearful eyes of the boy were turned upon him.
Silently, therefore, he laid his hand on the head of the maiden, Raising his tearful eyes to the silent stars that above them 610 Moved on their way, unperturbed by the wrongs and sorrows of mortals.
Faces of friends she beheld, that were mournfully gazing upon her, Pallid, with tearful eyes, and looks of saddest compassion.
All were silent--each heart was left to its own communings, and the bowed head and tearful eye told that memory was busy with the Past.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tearful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
