What is "shed tears"

Usage examples of "shed tears".

They took him by the elbow and held him when he wished to walk somewhere, they gazed at him sorrowfully and shed tears of both joy and sadness, they squeezed his feeble hands and reminisced about the old days and about the ones who were dead, about what all the grandchildren were doing, and about who was pregnant and who had run away, who was making a lot of money and who was broke and a disgrace, who was stationed in Korea and who was stationed in Germany .

He said, 'Don't shed tears over those already in the ground, until after you have brought vengeance to those who put them there.

I looked at her for a long long moment, I looked until I couldn't bear to look any longer, I'd never more shed tears for the martyrs who went to the stake, it was all too easy.

When she saw Natasha's fright, Sonya shed tears of shame and pity for her friend.

Later Norit would shed tears, but Luz did not let her shed them now.

And somehow she seemed to shed tears without any ugly distortion of her face, so that, weeping, she only looked prettier than ever.

But now he shed tears--tears that it lightened her aching heart to see--and making as though he would fall upon his knees, besought her to forgive him.