Closing her eyes against the scalding tears that threatened, she braced her hands on the desk for support.

She didn't know she was crying till the first scalding tears ran down her cheeks.

Bonnie closed her eyes, but nothing could stop the well of emotions inside her from overflowing, sending scalding tears down her cheeks.

Thine are the scalding tears of sympathy, The tender love for the young flower.

Cristina blinked back more scalding tears and the lump of sand clogging her throat.

Then, with the curious informality of a woman's emotion--whether of grief or of joy, whether of pleasure or of pain--she rocked down her head to her knees, while through her fingers poured the scalding tears.

Pictures of her parents, memories, flashed through her mind bringing hot scalding tears to her eyes.

She had left Finn, wept commendably few of the scalding tears of blighted love, put a curse on him and her of the knock-knees etc., donned a dashing dress and gone out to dinner.

His body shook with a palsy of fright and in shame and rage he felt the scalding cry come from his throat and the scalding tears falling out of his eyes and down his flaming cheeks.

She blinked away sudden scalding tears, and wearily finished unpacking.