"Ah-that's owing to an accident-a misunderstanding; and we won't argue it," Tess answered, with tearfulness in her words.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
There is, as anybody can see, a whole world of difference between the reserve of sagacious apostleship, on the one hand, dealing tenderly with scruple and tearfulness and fine sensibility of conscience, and the reserve of intellectual cowardice on the other hand, dealing hypocritically with narrow minds in the supposed interests of social peace and quietness.
"On Compromise"
John Morley
Conspicuously at any rate it had a side that was responsible for Mrs. Beale's sudden emotion and sudden confidence-a demonstration this, however, of which the tearfulness was far from deterrent to our heroine's thought of how happy she should be if she could only make an arrangement for herself.
"What Maisie Knew"
Henry James