Tears come hard at twelve, and scald when they fall.

The tears scalded her cheeks like hot oil; she let them.

Tears bit at the backs of her eyes then scalded thinly down.

Real tears scalded her eyes as she felt for the first time a pang of piercing loss.

Her body shook with the pain, and hot tears scalded her cheeks.

For the second time tears scalded her eyes.

Tears of frustration and fear scalded under my eyelids.

Of course, every cat behaved like that, but all the same Will felt such a longing for home that tears scalded his eyes.

"Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald me like molten lead."

Tears were scalding in his eyes.