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Examples

  • I got to my feet as Katy raised a tear-streaked face to me.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • Looking up into the stands, I found my mom and she was tear-streaked, too.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • I ask Aunt Shirley as I lean down to kiss her tear-streaked cheek.

    Joseph’s Grace Shelia P. Moses 2011

  • Very slowly it came to her then, and she clutched Ash, there in the grass of their lawn, in bright one o' clock light, and looked into his tear-streaked face and understood.

    For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011

  • He loosened his hold on her and tucked a finger under her chin, lifting up her tear-streaked face.

    Chanlis and Desira « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • Looking up into the stands, I found my mom and she was tear-streaked, too.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • I ask Aunt Shirley as I lean down to kiss her tear-streaked cheek.

    Joseph’s Grace Shelia P. Moses 2011

  • Looking up into the stands, I found my mom and she was tear-streaked, too.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • Within the last few years the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation has also acquired the archive of another Life magazine photographer, Edward Clark , whose most famous image is that of the tear-streaked face of Graham Jackson , a Navy accordion player, taken as FDR's hearse passed on the way to the train station in Warm Springs, Ga.

    History, One Photo at a Time Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • I got to my feet as Katy raised a tear-streaked face to me.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

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