One ad, for example, showed a tearful woman talking on the telephone with her former husband about the consequences of their divorce.

Then he got outside and a tearful, middle-aged woman who said her family was losing its farm grabbed his arm.

"Thank you for making my faith so much stronger," one tearful woman said.

As are most men, Sam was helpless before a tearful woman.

Linda's gaze fell on a tearful young woman who was watching the blaze.

Vimes spotted a tearful young woman in the main group and advanced carefully.

He'd given her what comfort he could, though he knew little of soothing tearful women.

A tearful woman stood in the vestibule clinging to a tissue and a cell phone.

No man in the world likes to ask a tearful woman, "What's wrong?"

The tearful woman refused to give her last name.