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Examples
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She weeps and bathes her cheeks with railing tears,
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“Generous Delvile!” cried Cecilia, melting into tears,
Cecilia 2008
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“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,
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And Jesus took his own hand and wiped away her tears,
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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,
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The furrows of long thought, and dried-up tears,
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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
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‘Uncle?’ cried Fanny, affrighted and bursting into tears,
Little Dorrit 2007
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And when he perceived those who followed by his side in tears,
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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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