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Tearful

adjective

Filled with or marked by tears. "Tearful entreaties"

Showing sorrow. Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, weeping.

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... he cried, making a trumpet of both hands, and then with a parting wave he passed from view, leaving the exasperated and almost tearful Alene to return to the house, with the disobedient Prince at her side proudly carrying ...

— Peggy-Alone • Mary Agnes Byrne

... sad scene but a simple one. There was the gray light of early morning struggling in through the open port, and falling on the dying boy's face; falling, too, on M'Hearty's rough but kindly countenance, and on the figures of the sick-bay servants standing by the cot-foot tearful and frightened. That was all. But an open Bible lay upon the coverlet, and in his left hand the young soldier clasped a miniature—his ...

— As We Sweep Through The Deep • Gordon Stables

... our emotions from overflowing the bounds of reason in such a case. The poor, tearful desire lays a pale hand on reason's lips and gazes wistfully into the mysterious ...

— God and my Neighbour • Robert Blatchford

... that now alarms, Fills this sad heart and tearful eye, And conquers the once powerful charms Of youth, of hope, ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... and therefore if Charon snarleth at thee, thou now mayest well know what his speech signifies." This ended, the dark plain trembled so mightily, that the memory of the terror even now bathes me with sweat. The tearful land gave forth a wind that flashed a vermilion light which vanquished every sense of mine, and I fell as a man ...

— The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell [The Inferno] • Dante Alighieri

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