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angel's tears

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noun

  1. (functioning as singular) another name for moonflower

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Angel's tears dripped softly onto the cold wooden floor.

From Literature

There the angel’s tears bond with the visitor’s fear, awe.

From The New Yorker

Arcade embraced him, and Maurice felt the angel's tears as they dropped upon his cheek.

From Project Gutenberg

Her tears and her prayers echoed through the dark void that surrounded the tormented captive soul, and the unexpected mercy was obtained for it through an angel's tears.

From Project Gutenberg

Nevertheless, Stradella forgot all about the injured feature and its possessor in a few minutes, when he had tuned his lute and was sitting by the table with a sheet of music and a pen at his elbow, for he thought aloud in soft sounds that often ceased at first and then began again, but little by little linked themselves together in a melody that has not perished to this day; and with the music the words came, touchingly simple, but heart-felt as an angel's tears.

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