Sentence Examples

1. His eye, elate with happiness, was reading eagerly the tearful gaze of Haydée, when suddenly the door opened.
2. Cody had fantasized about reunions before some were tearful events, most ended with Cody punching his father in the face.
3. But one day at table with the duke and duchess, just as he was about to carry his resolution into effect and ask for their permission, lo and behold suddenly there came in through the door of the great hall two women, as they afterwards proved to be, draped in mourning from head to foot, one of whom approaching Don Quixote flung herself at full length at his feet, pressing her lips to them, and uttering moans so sad, so deep, and so doleful that she put all who heard and saw her into a state of perplexity and though the duke and duchess supposed it must be some joke their servants were playing off upon Don Quixote, still the earnest way the woman sighed and moaned and wept puzzled them and made them feel uncertain, until Don Quixote, touched with compassion, raised her up and made her unveil herself and remove the mantle from her tearful face.
4. Yet I love to hear their wailing, their doleful responses, trilled along the wood-side reminding me sometimes of music and singing birds as if it were the dark and tearful side of music, the regrets and sighs that would fain be sung.
5. He could see her eyes go a little tearful in memory of them.