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  • Her tear-drenched chocolate eyes have suffered and witnessed suffering.

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • Her tear-drenched chocolate eyes have suffered and witnessed suffering.

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • There is no mistaking these misty, tear-drenched recollections for reportage: a plush red curtain rises from the floor; an iron staircase winds up from the sitting-room; music – played partly on a glass harmonica – ripples and chimes.

    Fela!; The Glass Menagerie; The Master Builder Susannah Clapp 2010

  • (They would later be told the eye masks needed to be returned for the next screening, causing them to pity the next person who had to wear their tear-drenched ones.)

    GreenCine Daily: Seoul Dispatch. 2007

  • In a dramatic, tear-drenched appearance in court just hours ago, the prime suspect, 28-year-old female Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby, shows no remorse.

    CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2009 2009

  • In a dramatic and tear-drenched appearance in court just hours ago, Huckaby shows no remorse.

    CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2009 2009

  • But for the most part it steers away from the worst clich�s of that tear-drenched genre.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/8. 2006

  • As tough as I acted, on many occasions I buried my tear-drenched face in one of his flannel shirts to be soothed by the sound of his voice or the thump of his big heart.

    I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Stephanie Kuehnert 2008

  • As tough as I acted, on many occasions I buried my tear-drenched face in one of his flannel shirts to be soothed by the sound of his voice or the thump of his big heart.

    I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Stephanie Kuehnert 2008

  • As tough as I acted, on many occasions I buried my tear-drenched face in one of his flannel shirts to be soothed by the sound of his voice or the thump of his big heart.

    I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Stephanie Kuehnert 2008

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