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  • She weeps and bathes her cheeks with railing tears,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “Generous Delvile!” cried Cecilia, melting into tears,

    Cecilia 2008

  • “The devil take me,” said he, “Lucy, if I fetch you any more of these tormenting messages again; for I like you better,” said he, kissing away the tears,

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • And Jesus took his own hand and wiped away her tears,

    Steven Denlinger: Death and the Evangelical Urban Myth 2008

  • I know not how (saith Seneca) but sometimes 'tis good to be miserable in misery: and for the most part all grief evacuates itself by tears,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  •   The furrows of long thought, and dried-up tears,

    Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

  • She affords a single triumph; with a woman there is resistance upon resistance to overcome; she has but joy and tears,

    A Woman of Thirty 2007

  • ‘Uncle?’ cried Fanny, affrighted and bursting into tears,

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • And when he perceived those who followed by his side in tears,

    The Apology of Socrates 2007

  • Hannah informs me, that she heard my father high and angry with my mother, at taking leave of her: I suppose for being to favourable to me; for Hannah heard her say, as in tears,

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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