(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Had she known her sister sought to tear her from such prospects and suchrealities as these, what would have been her sensations? They could havebeen understood only by her mother, who might have felt nearly the same.
Why, my poor old mother, here, used to sit before this fireplace uponthat little stool when she was a girl; didn't you, mother?'The tear which starts unbidden to the eye when the recollection of oldtimes and the happiness of many years ago is suddenly recalled, stoledown the old lady's face as she shook her head with a melancholy smile.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Snodgrass,' said Mr. Pickwick earnestly, 'how is our friend--he is notill?No,' replied Mr. Snodgrass; and a tear trembled on his sentimentaleyelid, like a rain-drop on a window-frame-'no; he is not ill.
The exchange of cordialities with their fine old host and Mr.Trundle was even more hearty and prolonged; and it was not until Mr.Snodgrass had been several times called for, and at last emerged froma dark passage followed soon after by Emily (whose bright eyes lookedunusually dim), that the three friends were enabled to tear themselvesfrom their friendly entertainers.
To smile! To laughoutright, and tear my hair, and roll upon the ground with shrieks ofmerriment.
The white-headed old man followed her to the grave,and the proud brothers dropped a tear over the insensible corpse of herwhose sufferings they had regarded in her lifetime with muscles of iron.
She drew her arm coaxingly through the old man's,and whispered something in his ear; and do what he would, old Lobbscouldn't help breaking out into a smile, while a tear stole down hischeek at the same time.