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Meanings of penitential tears in English

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Usage of penitential tears in English
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The penitential tears of centuries had incrusted the whole interior with their glittering stalactites.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I
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Your penitential tears have obliterated your guilt and blotted out your errors with your Julia.
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton / A Novel: Founde...
3
Adore leeks and garlic, and shed penitential tears at the smell of a deified onion?
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02: Hooker to South
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Suddenly she burst into penitential tears and wept.
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
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Her intense love and her penitential tears deserved for her a "crown of justice."
The Happiness of Heaven / By a Father of the Society of Jesus
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He was floundering in a perfect mire, composed of the dust of conflict mingled with penitential tears.
The Brentons
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He turned and ran down the road and round behind an elevator, where half an hour later Pearl found him shedding penitential tears, not alas!
Sowing Seeds in Danny
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