1.   Fighting back the sting of bitter tears, Lissa straightened her clothes, and left the office by a back door.

2.   She buried her face in her hands and burst into bitter tears.

3.   She wept bitter tears of remorse for leaving her children behind.

4.   She wept bitter tears of self-reproach.

5.   He wept bitter tears of disappointment.

6.   Bitter tears, face-first falls, outrage and investigation.

7.   But no one was crying bitter tears one way or another.

8.   He had caused those who tried to ruin the judge to weep bitter tears.

9.   We hung up, and I sat very still, waiting to feel something deep and dark inside, something that would move me to cry bitter tears.