On thy dear old tear-stained leaves I love to look. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
But he looks straight at the blushing, bashful, tear-stained face. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
The woman's face is tear-stained, with long dark lines trailing down. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest] Reference
"You're so sweet to me!" choked Louisa, raising her tear-stained face. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
"Yes," she answered, despondently, looking up at me with tear-stained eyes. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
"Yes," quavered Tutti, lifting his terrified, tear-stained face to his brother. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
Her face was tear-stained, and she carried in her hand two slender white flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
Every New Year's, Aidan sends a box of cinnamon cruellers and a tear-stained note. From Wordnik.com. [Sugar and Saline] Reference
The activity helped -- until he saw Chang's tear-stained face and haunted expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel] Reference
Mrs. Sterling heard it and lifted her tear-stained face in earnest thankfulness to Heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
“I have tried,” she said; her face, usually so thoughtless, tear-stained, and quivering. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
She raised a tear-stained face to him, and said: "Goodbye, dear brother, we shall miss you.". From Wordnik.com. [Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker] Reference
It's unwise to bathe in too much false cheer, but let's be clear-eyed as well as tear-stained. From Wordnik.com. [ABCs will prompt newspaper gloom – but appetite for print is still out there] Reference
It was the housemaid, and the candle that she held in her hand showed a grave, tear-stained face. From Wordnik.com. [Left at Home or, The Heart's Resting Place] Reference
Jeremiah looked up into a tear-stained face in which he read sympathy, love and sincere devotion. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference
"Don't you fret yourself, Mary Rose," she said with her lips against Mary Rose's tear-stained face. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Rose of Mifflin] Reference
Brenda turned a tear-stained face from the window and stared at the trio now standing close together. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
Men, with tear-stained faces, looked away from his death to 'form themselves' -- as he had bidden them. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Lifting her tear-stained face, Theo told herself that He would do so still, for 'His mercies never fail.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
And the children, with tear-stained faces, gathered wood that had been stranded along the edge of the sandbar. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
And Aunt Betsy saw, as she unrolled him, that his face was all tear-stained, so she knew what had been happening. From Wordnik.com. [Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens] Reference
Fearful, trembling, tear-stained Francette crept back, and the factor took both her small hands in a tender clasp. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
"No, we ain't!" retorted the older child, lifting a streaked, tear-stained face to eye her questioner indignantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
She went to the garden gate to meet them, and saw at once by Blanche's tear-stained face that something was wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
She glanced at the Captain, then at the Padre and then down at the pretty, tear-stained face of the clinging child. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
We hurried across it, for the glare was unwelcome to the tear-stained faces of both, all was silent and still as death. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Theo's arms were tight round her restored brother's neck, and Alick rested his tear-stained cheek against his sister's. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
"Anything gone wrong?" asked Tims, after a minute, peering at Milly's tear-stained eyes with her own short-sighted ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
As you read about their tear-stained confrontation, it's hard not to smile -- this might be the first modern love story. From Wordnik.com. [No Place Like Rome] Reference
Her hair streamed in her eyes, her summer dress bore evidence of a careless position, and her tear-stained cheeks of weeping. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts' Good Turn] Reference
She was so wonderfully pretty too, with her great dark, melancholy eyes, her flushed, tear-stained cheeks, her rich rare lips!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
At times I would surprise her on her knees with her eyes closed and a certain strange indefinable light on her tear-stained face. From Wordnik.com. [Paula the Waldensian] Reference
She turned to Ross, a tear-stained face on which her gratitude at his offer struggled with her woes and the Horror of the Situation. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
'And,' he went on, lifting up his tear-stained face, 'I am more sorry than I can ever tell that I did it, Theo -- sorry and ashamed.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
There was nothing, from himself to the last dollar he possessed, that Mr. Congreve did not offer; and Jean sent a tear-stained note with. From Wordnik.com. [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference
When she saw her mother in that condition, with tear-stained face, aged in a few short hours, Desiree felt a terrible burden of remorse. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He went at his "piece" with a set purpose to conquer, to redeem himself, and to bring back the smile into the child's tear-stained face. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
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