He was by nature soft-hearted, so that he often shed tears through warm sympathy....
This, however, was not the lesson which was drawn from it by Goethe's contemporaries; they shed tears of sympathy over the lovelorn youth whose burden becomes too great for him to bear.
When she saw Natasha's fright, Sonya shed tears of shame and pity for her friend.
She stopped and breathed still more quickly, but did not shed tears.
