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Example sentences for "tears were"

  • Tears were appearing in Doctor Chassaigne's eyes; doubtless the memory of his dear dead ones had again flashed upon him.

  • Tears were gathering in his eyes, and emotion made his voice falter as he resumed: "There!

  • However, in spite of these words, tears were rising to his eyes.

  • But fortunately the trembling and the tears were seen by no human eyes, only by a brown pair that belonged to those brown ears.

  • From under his shining lashes the tears were beginning to creep, finding their way in long letter S's down his pale cheeks.

  • Tears were in his eyes, but somehow he was not ashamed of them.

  • At length I rose and knelt and prayed: I cannot write the words I said, My words were slow, my tears were few; But through the dark my silence spoke Like thunder.

  • My tears were like to fall, So I turned round to the wall And hid my hollow cheek, Making as if I slept, As silent as a stone, And no one knew I wept.

  • I wept for memory; She sang for hope that is so fair: My tears were swallowed by the sea; Her songs died on the air.

  • My tears were like to fall, So I turned round to the wall And hid my hollow cheek Making as if I slept, As silent as a stone, And no one knew I wept.

  • I wept for memory; She sang for hope that is so fair: 10 My tears were swallowed by the sea; Her songs died on the air.

  • At length I rose and knelt and prayed: I cannot write the words I said, 130 My words were slow, my tears were few; But through the dark my silence spoke Like thunder.

  • Tears were in the eyes of his children, and whenever their mother came from her husband's room and joined them for a moment, they seemed in her only to seek comfort and hope.

  • I hoped that the days of tears were past, and that my Louisa would become again as merry and light-hearted as she used to be.

  • When they withdrew their arms again, tears were glistening in the eyes of the officers as well as in those of the youth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    air and water pollution; been made; each soul; either parent; finely divided; great esteem; late date; lower chamber; national highway; nine children; only they; optic cables; paler below; place himself; second story; sent for; steam engine; steam shovel; tears were; thou best; twenty marks; would also