What is "tearful"

Usage examples of "tearful".

Christina, a dozen plans milling around inside her head, assured him, with no truth at all, that she would and went to pack up her things, joined presently by Mevrouw Beek, quite tearful at parting with her.

After some few minutes, the ladies, who were inclined to oppose him, yielded to the tearful advice of their more timid sisters, and one by one they began to unclasp necklaces and belts and hand them over to the dacoit together with bracelets, bangles and rings.

Gavrila Smodlaka had replaced the late Magpie Maggie Hag at the guichet of the red wagon and, whenever she turned to tell Florian, at his office desk behind her, that she had sold the entire stock of tickets allotted for the performance about to begin, she sounded almost tearful, as if she had committed some fault.

The hubbub of hushed and excited voices blended with the tearful cries of confused infants and children, over the omnipresent hum of powerful, industrial-strength air cleaners.

When he entered the main ops center, Dair found Paca embracing a tearful Alex.

It was an odd fight, with the Mother Thing gentle and loving and sensible and utterly firm, and Peewee throwing a tearful, bad-little-girl tantrumand me standing miserably by, not even refereeing.

Bar before a soft east wind, to the music of sacbut, fife, and drum, with discharge of all ordnance, great and small, with cheering of young and old from cliff and strand and quay, and with many a tearful prayer and blessing upon that gallant bark, and all brave hearts on board.

It was not a time for talk of any kind, either when they were slowly and not quite smoothly dropping through the lugubrious upper part of the structure, where it was darkened by a rough weatherboarding, or lower down, where the unobstructed light showed the grim tearful face of the cliff, bedrabbled with oozy springs, and the audacious slightness of the elevator.

Are we, most holpen, when we meet Thee and thy Bridget in the street, Upon that tearful errand set-- So often trod, so patient yet!

She thought about Leigh Mellon, her tearful blue eyes and heartfelt appeal to viewers.

Luciana was not the only one who noticed that for some reason the Marquess of Standish was a little tearful.

He was allowed to drift away from the threshold of the Belgravian mansion while Winnie averted her tearful eyes.

They saw a tall, graceful girl in the droll parody of a kitchen-maid who had wiped a tearful face with a blacklead brush.

Flinching, Brelan looked away from her tearful face and his gaze settled on Chand.

EVEN WRITTEN THAT TO Fannie, a long and tearful letter, words that came from some very desperate place, the part that fights for just a bit more time, enough time to say the right words.