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Teardrop

noun
1.
Anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring).
2.
A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.  Synonym: tear.





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"Teardrop" Quotes from Famous Books



... teardrop is sitting next to another one, like two eggs in a rack. On the other side is a bulkhead; behind, the curve of the hull; and directly ahead an empty space, then another bulkhead and an open door, through which after a few seconds a head ...
— The Lost Kafoozalum • Pauline Ashwell
... fowt, They've trubbles an trials to face; I'th' futer they luk an see nowt 'At can hamper ther coorse i' life's race. Th' sun's shinin soa breetly, they think Sorrow's claads have noa shadow for them, They walk on uncertainty's brink, An they see in each teardrop a gem. ...
— Yorkshire Lyrics • John Hartley
... kissed with the white innocence of the sea, where pearls might secretly make themselves perfect, untroubled by the great doings of wind and tide—merely rocked into beauty by ripple and beam, with a teardrop falling, once in a while, into their dim growing hearts, from some ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne
... exquisite. More—it was authoritative, masterly, soaring. It gripped the hearers' senses and heartstrings. The beauty and dreaminess of the Ave Maria flooded the air with loveliness. Brice listened, enthralled. Down Claire's cheek rolled a teardrop, of whose existence she was not ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune


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