Sentence examples for kept tears from inspiring English sources

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It comes as little surprise that Auden wrote a poem about him shortly after his death, saying how he "kept tears like dirty postcards in a drawer", and described how, in his "savage footnotes on unjust editions / He timidly attacked the life he led".

W. H. Auden, in a poet-topoet sonnet, chastised him lightly for this secrecy: Deliberately he chose the dry-as-dust, Kept tears like dirty postcards in a drawer.

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Throughout the show, she kept tearing away baggy clothes to wear navel-baring outfits underneath.

Isn't it bliss Don't you approve They just kept tearing around But they wouldn't move We need the Clowns … Send in the Clowns.

Lindala later said, "[t]he little babies kept tearing their hair off, we kept gluing it back on".

She underwent emergency surgery but eventually had to be euthanized when she kept tearing off the cast.

Even in his final frail years, when returning to France became increasingly difficult, and he struggled to walk and keep tears from rheumy eyes, Howard would perform this respectful ritual.

Valerie Murphy stood in the alley behind her modest house on the tattered fringe of downtown, smoking nervously, looking away as if to keep tears from coming into her eyes.

It turns into a solid after raising to body temperature, forming a tiny plug that keeps tears from draining away from the surface of the eye.

Chances are, other peeps feel sad too, so if someone discourages you or makes you feel sad, don't keep tears in about leaving to please someone else.

One who keeps tearing around one who can't move, Where are the clowns?

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