1.   For a moment the two strangers just stood there holding hands and blinking back their tears.

2.   She banged her fist against the steering-wheel, fighting back the tears that scalded her eyes and threatened to blind her.

3.   She looked away, fighting back her tears.

4.   Fighting back his tears, he waved goodbye to her from the station platform.

5.   Ruth buried her face in his neck and fought back the tears for poor Maria Luisa.

6.   Fighting back tears, she said she was still hopeful that Elian would be allowed to return to Cuba with his grandmothers.

7.   Glancing at his daughter as she spoke, John Mercer repeatedly fought back tears.

8.   In a moment that touched many of those who saw it, Letterman fought back tears as he thanked the medical staff that performed the quintuple bypass.

9.   One man clutched his blanket as he was loaded into an ambulance, saying goodbye to staff workers and nurses as he fought back tears.

10.   She sometimes fights back tears, and sometimes talks to her daughter, the chit-chat they loved to exchange in their kitchen back in Massachusetts.