They leaned together, each supporting the other, and Silence could no longer restrain her tears.

Her face turned white, and her eyes bulged as she tried to restrain her tears.

She was trying by some wonderful, secret, and motionless gymnastics to restrain her tears.

I think you can say that they managed to restrain their tears.

Here the kind-hearted old woman could not restrain her tears.

Anne of Austria was a woman; she could not restrain her tears.

For the moment she seemed unable to speak, and was squeezing Rose's hand to help herself restrain her tears.

The time had been, and a very few days before, when the child could not have restrained her tears and must have wept with him.

Immediately behind them, a young woman hovered, trying bravely to restrain her tears.

So far Mary had restrained her tears, but now she gave way to them.