Signs of sorrow, and an alternative title for this puzzle

Usage examples of teardrops.

To each forearm was strapped some kind of shield: elongated teardrops of a mirror-polished metal.

For a moment he stroked them between his fingers, as if he could somehow massage them back into the teardrops he remembered gleaming around her neck.

Great teardrops clung to her lower lashes as she stared at him with wide brown eyes.

Eight were not suitable for teardrops, as we told Monsieur Franklin, but they look handsome as stars.

He said he would come here to the shop at the beginning of the week and I would give him his five stones and pay for the teardrops and stars.

The cheque is for the sum I agreed with Grev for the twelve teardrops and eight stars.

Maarten-Pagnier in Antwerp and discussed the transit of twelve teardrops, eight stars and five fakes.

Connors answered, sliding down a trench, then lifting his head and arm over the berm just long enough to donate a couple of thousand depleted uranium teardrops to the Posleen.

Because it was impossible for any terrestrial factory to produce the standard ammunition, which had a dollop of antimatter at the base to power the gun, it had been necessary to substitute simple depleted-uranium teardrops.

Wind erosion and the marvelous erratics created by volcanic bombardment from Olympus Mons gave the expedition members a lot of features to discuss: beach terracing from long-lost lakes, meandering streambeds, lava bombs shaped like giant teardrops, or colored in a way that implied certain gases in copious quantities in the Hesperian atmosphere.