• to turn on the waterworks
• to blub, to blubber, to sob
• as still as death, as still as the grave
• he has been very near to death's door
• to mingle one's tears with sy's
• as still as death, as still as the grave
• gravestone, ledger, tomb, tombstone
• cry, crying, wail, weeping
• to mewl, to slobber, to snivel
• blank unbroken silence, dead silence, dead unbroken silence