How To Use Bitter In A Sentence

  • This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
  • He is engaged in a bitter struggle with his rival to get control of the company.
  • They are now locked in a bitter custody battle over their three children.
  • Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
  • There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner? Canada and the Empire
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  • ‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
  • His wife shopped him to me with a bitter complaint about his clothes bill.
  • All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality. Erema — My Father's Sin
  • His work is thus marked with a bitter irony which permeated not only the substance of his theory but also its method.
  • It is true that, even at the time of the discovery of nitrobenzol, he pointed out the striking similarity of its smell to that of the oil of bitter almonds. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
  • Yet the Browns harbour no bitterness towards Waugh over the destruction of their business.
  • French presses don't do this, so you get full-strength coffee flavor goodness without the bitterness that makes you want cream and sugar. What is the best coffee maker, percolator, for camping?
  • Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. Maya Angelou 
  • It came as ministers agreed a deal to end months of bitter wrangling. The Sun
  • This camp and sassy pop track comes complete with bitter and twisted lyrics and a hint of europop. The Sun
  • Nutty sweetbreads, bitter greens, gently brash shallots, and velvety chanterelles suffuse farfalle in well-oiled repertory.
  • The captain continues the bitter commentary for a moment before calming himself down, saying he knows that Jenko wouldn't have wanted them to get angry about his death, and himself would have "rapped" to them about balance in the cosmos "and some nonsense about karma. Tomato Nation
  • More than 50 cask ales, lagers and ciders will be on available, including Abbot Ale, Cumberland Ale, Titanic Iceberg and Sam Smith's Old Brewery Bitter.
  • The most important of the salts, formed by the combinations of the sulphuric acid, are, first, _sulphat of potash_, formerly called _sal polychrest_: this is a very bitter salt, much used in medicine; it is found in the ashes of most vegetables, but it may be prepared artificially by the immediate combination of sulphuric acid and potash. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
  • Did you know that the green part of the horseradish plant was one of the five bitter herbs served on the traditional Passover seder plate during the reading of the Haggadah?
  • The part that you don't expect is the yellow flavoring on the interior called "lupulin" which is where the bitter for the beer comes from. TreeHugger
  • There were some bitter arguments before we ended it by text message. The Sun
  • He wore a thick overcoat as a protection against the bitter cold.
  • a prolonged and bitter struggle
  • Was there ever such a man?" said Mr. Mordacks to himself, as he rode back to Flamborough against the bitter wind, after "fettling" the affairs of the poor Carroways, as well as might be for the present. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
  • “Never enough, sir, while one of the idolatrous tyrants is left unhanged,” said he, with a right bitter smile. Westward Ho!
  • The deadline for acceptance of the offer is Thursday afternoon, but both sides have claimed they have the upper hand in a takeover battle which is becoming increasingly bitter.
  • It was accounted an immodest thing for women to dishevel and unloose their hair publicly: The priest unlooseth the hairs of the women suspected of adultery, when she was to be tried by the bitter water, which was done for greater disgrace. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • For the fruits, I used candied bitter orange peels, green raisins, and dried apricots, figs (black and white), and peach.
  • American bittersweet is valued for its glossy green summer foliage followed by orange and red fruits and seeds, and several landscape cultivars are commercially marketed.
  • I chose blackstrap molasses because its hearty, slightly bitter flavor gave the gingerbread a dark, heavy richness.
  • Some weeds, such as chickweed, common groundsel, and bittercress, may germinate and grow at almost any time of year.
  • Similar struggles exist in east Malaysia, where the land rights of indigenous groups are bitterly disputed with loggers eager to harvest the timber for export.
  • I was accused of being stiff, spoiled, pompous, upper crusted, bitter, angry, negative, imbecilic, and even crazy.
  • Bitterns are virtually invisible as their plumage provides perfect camouflage.
  • The concentrated juice of the bitter cassava, under the name of cassareep, forms the basis of the West India dish, "pepper pot. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigour, and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; all their service wherein they made them serve, was with rigour_. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
  • The world's lingering,the end is still no match for the forget the bitter oligonucleotide soup.
  • It was bitterly cold now and the ground was frozen hard.
  • Sports kwtxsports We've got all of Art Briles 'comments from today's press conference at kwtx. com/sports\ jwilproduction Man, @gregmcevoy really gets bitter about how bad he sucks in sports! Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • Haman was an individual who allowed a slight to build up inside him until he was eaten up with anger, revenge, and bitterness.
  • Described as plump, fleshy, bitter, salty and succulent all at once, their taste remains on the palate long after swallowing.
  • I shall have to hand Letty Dale to him at last!" he thought, yielding in bitter generosity to the conditions imposed on him by the ungenerousness of another. The Egoist
  • Although bitterly funny at times, the picture also creates a somber mood that is very affecting.
  • Several in company checked him from time to time for his bitter reflections instead of arguments, and wished him, if he could to answer my arguments, which he called sophistry, assuring him that until he did, they must receive my opinion and arguments as scriptural and sound reasoning. Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.
  • She comes across as very different from the stereotypes of the bitter single career woman or the strident female in power.
  • There were some bitter arguments before we ended it by text message. The Sun
  • And bitterness is just such a wasted time and emotion. Valerie Plame Wilson Fights Scandal With 'Fair Game'
  • But hanging around to the bitter end is sending good money after bad; better to cut your losses and vamoose.
  • The troops suffered atrocious conditions in bitterly cold winters, with temperatures down to minus 30C. Times, Sunday Times
  • She still seems quite bitter about it.
  • It was another bitter blow for the star. The Sun
  • Dundee United gorged themselves on a rich performance at Ibrox, but it was an afternoon which became bitterly unpalatable to Rangers.
  • Apothecaries would not sugar their pills unless they were bitter
  • Sixty-six per cent. of _picrotoxin_ consists of another bitter substance, non-poisonous -- _picrotin_, which is insoluble in benzine and is reduced by Fehling's solution and nitrate of silver. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
  • This subtext is also interesting considering how Barry's later opera, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, raises these issues again when dealing with the subject matter of Fassbinder's film and its all female cast. Archive 2006-11-01
  • They even visit Canterbury on their way, but the tales they tell (mostly to us, not each other) are the bitter-sweet flashbacks of memory, not episodes of instructive fiction.
  • After a bitter internal struggle the Apaches turned down the deal.
  • He is infamous throughout the village for his bitter temperament and quickness to anger.
  • Saturate lump sugar with bitters in a thick tumbler or mug.
  • He is obviously bitterly disappointed. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is imprisoned for a year for having acted as Castlewood's second in the duel, for which Lady Castlewood bitterly reproaches him, and on his release joins the army and fights in the war of the Spanish Succession.
  • We will fight this court case to the bitter end.
  • Thus, each outlay of dutiful public "support" was eventually marred by some tactless remark or hint of encouragement to an outraged bitter-ender that, if only they kept faith, there might still be a way. Hillary Goes Out With a Whimper
  • It's wry humour that permeates the tale rather than bitterness.
  • For his part, Walsh declines to respond to Armstrong's bitter personal criticism in kind, and he displays no outward signs of animus toward the Tour champion.
  • Dawn came, the sea calmed but the cold was as bitter as ever.
  • I m good enough to share Richard's bed, she thought bitterly, hut he doesn't want to be seen in public with me. YELLOW BIRD
  • The majority of his appointees have been approved, and they have been approved with no public rancor or bitter political warfare.
  • Unknown to the vast majority of urban-dwelling Scots, this magnificent beast is the subject of one of the most bitter controversies ever to affect wildlife in this country.
  • There is still something almost mythical about a piece of metal that can inspire and assuage all the bitterness of political posturing and stray dog culls. Times, Sunday Times
  • The recent availability of bittersweet chocolates coupled with our access to a global food market and unique ingredients has created an increased interest in artisanal chocolates.
  • Apparently there's some kind of oxidization going on, and the result is that after you eat something made with these pine nuts, you experience a bitter taste in your mouth that can last for a few days up to three weeks. Yulblog - Yulblog est une liste de carnetistes Montréalais et un endroit où s'informer des activitées tenues en personne.
  • First the candy: Known as Mozart Kugeln, packed in a delightful red tin with tiny portraitures of the composer, these are deluxe confections exquisitely filled with marzipan, made from "fresh green pistachios, almonds and rich hazelnut-nougat, enrobed with delicious milk and bitter chocolates. Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week
  • Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer.
  • A beer in which neither the sweetness of the malt nor the bitterness of the hops predominates.
  • He was very lively, sharp-witted, and perceptive about many things - yet he could also be bitter, cruel in his observations, and reckless in his behaviour.
  • The obvious reason is that the debates became so acrimonious and bitter, that the Generals ordered him to desist.
  • I shall be a bitter-looking little old lady with no muscle tone, she thought, and re-dialled Lucy.
  • Most of the city was aflame, and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs.
  • Flemings, and plans of bitter enmity against them; and the sight of his murdered father, with that look and tone of the old Dane, fired his spirit, and breaking from his trance of silent awe and grief, he exclaimed, "I see it, and dearly shall the traitor Fleming abye it! The Little Duke
  • That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. 
  • In the mid-seventeenth century, Spain began to import the bitter bark of cinchona trees from Peru and Ecuador as an antidote for malaria.
  • I think this are good with some bitter leaves like cresson alienois. Foodbeam » Happy birthday Aida
  • He budged not one inch on the bitter controversies dividing his party.
  • I wasn't sure how the carrot-vanilla thing would go, but the carrots didn't have the bitter undernote some carrots do, so it was really quite fine. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
  • I m good enough to share Richard's bed, she thought bitterly, hut he doesn't want to be seen in public with me. YELLOW BIRD
  • When another of Aegon's Great Bastards tried to seize the Iron Throne from his trueborn half-brother, Bittersteel joined the revolt.
  • It made her bitter and resentful towards him, and all the more rebellious.
  • Entire avian families are essentially confined to the Neotropics, as are such unique species as screamers, trumpeters, sunbittern, hoatzin, and boat-billed heron.
  • In truth, he seems to be more motivated and inspired by bitterness and spite than ever.
  • The authorities succeeded despite bitter opposition from teachers.
  • You filter the coffee through this special paper and it takes out the bitterness.
  • She bitterly resented the fact that her husband had been so successful.
  • It makes me feel bitter just thinking about it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Soak with bitters and gently muddle with a spoon.
  • Losing the match was a bitter disappointment for the team.
  • Trueman's especial tragedy was to make public the bitterness that he felt at the passing of his youth.
  • In Liverpool there is a sulphurous whiff of rebellion - bitter talk, alarming to some, of direct action.
  • Losing the business was a bitter pill to swallow.
  • In his recent annual address to the clergy the Bish. lamented bitterly that the American "jingo" was provoking dear patient Christian England to put on her war-paint. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
  • You married a woman you never should have married in the first place I think you know that, but you were enough of a self-flagellator to stick it out til the bitter end. "The disdain is palpable," Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes about Andrew Sullivan writing about me.
  • However the Roman prefect of Alexandria was Orestes and Cyril and Orestes became bitter political rivals as church and state fought for control.
  • Most of the drawings, etchings and aquatints that convey his bitter contempt and passionate despair for what the artist saw as a Spanish hell on earth remained unknown to the public until after his death.
  • The secrecy that surrounds the operation may sound excessive, but it is a result of bitter experience. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cold and bitter wind came straight at the face and chilled them to their bones.
  • After last year's long and bitter strike, few people want further industrial action.
  • The majority of pop musicians are completely unknown, which makes them bitter. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bruises on the birds' breasts and legs are something to watch out for, they can turn the flesh bitter.
  • The demands which Humbert makes upon Lolita, with his appalling sentimentality, cannot possibly be met by her: and the result is a bitter comedy in which the nymphet answers his passion by demand for more iced lollies or fudge sundaes. From the archive, 23 January 1959: Lolita and its critics
  • On Christmas Eve he started on his journey, and the next four years were spent among convicts in a prison at Omsk. He has described his experiences there in his “Memories of the House of the Dead” (1853) —experiences which, though frightful in the extreme, seem to have strengthened rather than injured him in body and mind, though they may have embittered his temper. Biographical Note
  • You're too old to be given a job. That's a bitter pill to swallow.
  • Bitter Gourd with Pigeon Pea-Tamarind Sauce (Pahakai Pitlai Kozhumbu) (Toor Dal – split pigeon peas - Cajanus cajan, Chana Dal – split skinless Desi chickpeas - Cicer arietinum, and Urad Dal – split black gram – Vigna mungo) 7. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The gods are dispassionate, jealous, vainly superior, and sometimes unfair and bitter.
  • Myrrh - adding a hint of bittersweetness, which is very important in a gardenia. Archive 2008-04-01
  • The experience had left her bitter and twisted.
  • Cold-pressing the fruit peel yields bigarade, the essential oil of the bitter orange; distilling the twigs gives you petitgrain; and the orange blossoms provide you with neroli. Orange Blossoms
  • One tester thought it had a bitter aftertaste, another said it tasted of coffee.
  • She was domineering, cold, bitter and demanding, and was often called a ‘tyrant.’
  • Along with good jobs and an extensive system of social services, loving wives and mothers facilitated the process of rehabilitating bitter and "maladjusted" veterans who might otherwise destabilize American society and politics. 51 Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
  • Cook 2 cups milk, 6 ounces chopped bittersweet chocolate, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon cocoa powder and 1/4 teaspoon chili powder over medium-low heat, stirring, until smooth.
  • We haven't been at our best and to drop out of the play-offs at this late stage of the season is a bitter pill to swallow.
  • A bitter custody battle ensued. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.
  • I began to reflect on the bitterly frigid winter days of my youth, when I would sit outside in the backyard of the old house.
  • Witte spent most of his last years abroad, depressed and bitter, predicting doom. The Return
  • Fists fly as Eagles sink Sharks THEIR bitter rivalry was born out of the code's most brutal grand final 37 years ago and last night beachboy combatants Cronulla and Manly wound back the clock as the fists flew again in the Sea Eagles '18-4 trial match win. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
  • Rep. Paul's used of the term "concentration camp" to refer to the Hamas run Gaza Strip was a loaded phrase fraught with bitter memory in Jewish history. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • This messy business took place less than a year ago so bitterness is understandable. The Sun
  • Like a graduation, it is a bittersweet moment: something treasured coming to an end. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most of the occupants were brewery workers who on account of their early rising resented bitterly being told to take shelter. Bomber
  • Similarly, in the European bitterling, Rhodeus sericeus, dominant males invested most in ejaculations before oviposition if only one competitor was present.
  • For those who know Mackenzie primarily as the author of whimsical tartan entertainments such as Whisky Galore, this bitter book comes as something of a revelation.
  • Bittersweet is this journey to the wooden boatyards of Maine and the glorious work of ‘contemporary genius’ Joel White as he undertook what he knew would be his last wooden boat project.
  • These experiences left him unusually free of bitterness or resentment. Times, Sunday Times
  • It came as ministers agreed a deal to end months of bitter wrangling. The Sun
  • The contest has become personalised, if not bitter.
  • As for Nicolas Sarkozy, the brief warm fling with the French president, when the two men were brothers-in-arms over the Libyan intervention, has soured into a bitter animosity. Now it's three-speed Europe. And we're left on the hard shoulder | Andrew Rawnsley
  • Josh pulled the collar of his grey marl coat up to shield his neck from the onslaught of bitter winds.
  • The claimant, who had been involved in bitter and protracted partnership disputes relating to the firm of solicitors of which he had formally been a partner, sued the defendant barrister for alleged negligence.
  • Sylvia, receiving this into a sore and raw consciousness, said to herself with an embittered instinct for cynicism that she had never heard more euphonious periphrases for selling yourself for money. The Bent Twig
  • It was bitterly cold now and the ground was frozen hard. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
  • The deceased told Constable Dix that her coffee had a bitter taste to it, and told Mrs Skellern that she could see some undissolved white powder in the bottom of the cup.
  • To your bitter disappointment your request to go to a meeting in another town is turned down. 7.
  • Lady Kicklebury wears a front, and, I make no doubt, a complete jasey; or she certainly would have let down her back hair at this minute, so overpowering were her feelings, and so bitter her indignation at her daughter's black ingratitude. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
  • It has a warm energy with bitter and acrid or pungent flavors.
  • Given his bitter experience with England, it always amazed me how much time he was willing to give to the media. The Sun
  • It would not be pleasant, certainly, to sit for an hour at a big empty table, ordering dishes fit only for epicures, and then, just as the waiters bore down with the Little Neck clams, so nicely iced and so cool and bitter-looking, to have to rise and go out into the street to a _table d'hôte_ around the corner. Van Bibber and Others
  • His poems on crocus, bittersweet, sycamore, sassafras and the like are celebrations of the natural world.
  • On the other hand, ‘bitter envy and selfish ambition’ does not come from above, ‘but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish’.
  • Since Friday it has turned colder, with bitter northerly winds feeding in sleet and snow showers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The nights were bitterly cold, the days little warmer, the lack of light demoralizing. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • hundreds of thousands of wisconsin union membership residents would be happy to donate. where would you like the checks sent? bitterweed wrote: Reuters: Press Release
  • And it was in France, dear reader, that I learned to swallow the bitter pill best known as endive-not a life lesson, perhaps, in the strict sense of the term, but a promising turn for a palate. picky than pleasant at the dinner table. Orangette
  • I stamped my feet and rubbed my hands together as it was bitter that night.
  • Mr Papandreou's Pasok, embittered and demoralised, remains unable to evolve from unreconstructed popularism and anti-right rhetoric.
  • Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. Maya Angelou 
  • They were all sympathetically disposed towards her bitter experience.
  • If bitters were added to a rum or whisky based drink, it was known as a cocktail.
  • A bitter controversy about the siting of the airport is rumbling in the designing institute.
  • And can you envision a scenario that would not leave behind embittered relatives who would raise their boys to be the future “terrorists” or “insurgents”, battling in guerilla warfare, using suicide bombers, kidnapping and torturing individual Americans, or whatever else they could do to hurt us in the future? Think Progress » “Guantanamo ought to be closed immediately”
  • The bittering hops are usually introduced to the wort say it "wert" and it is the proto-beer early in the boil and is present until the boil is over. Archive 2005-06-01
  • Some people behind the scenes are extremely bitter. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because he was literate and articulate, he showed a bitter contempt for the self-appointed intellectuals of the inter-war years.
  • Bitter past experience had made her careful of what she confided to Nadia.
  • The younger deputies were circled up by the door to Room 9, trying to joke off the bitter aftertaste of mortality. THE KILL CLAUSE
  • Rinse quinoa in cold water twice so it's free of saponin, quinoa's natural bitter coating. Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Enough Already -- Busting the Myth of Plant-Based Protein Deficiency
  • It is muddy, too, and overrich in dissolved fibrous and bitter matters. The Suffrage Cook Book
  • The best myrrhe is known by little peeces which are not round; and when they grow together, they yeeld a certain whitish liquour which issueth and resolveth from them, and if a man breake them into morsels, it hath white veines resembling men's nails, and in tast is somewhat bitter. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
  • If we had delayed, the Danish fleet would soon have been in the hands of the enemy; hence his maledictions against what he termed our "aggressions:" we had anticipated him, and he was mortified with the bitter disappointment he thereby sustained. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
  • Notwithstanding the great physical similarity between nitrobenzol and oil of bitter almonds, there is yet a slight _difference in smell which can be detected by an experienced nose_. [ The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
  • These chicons are the forced shoots of an otherwise green, bitter salad called witloof chicory.
  • There are specific genes that make people more or less disposed to the bitter taste in sprouts. Times, Sunday Times
  • No fellow human being could be surprised, wrote Edward to King Alfonso as one father to another, if we were inwardly desolated by the sting of this bitter grief, for we are human, too.
  • I felt it had to be brought to the public's attention when last week, in bitterly cold weather, the players went into unheated shower rooms with only freezing cold water to shower in.
  • For instance, Piers's unforthcoming remark about avoiding love because he had once tasted it and it had left a bitter after-effect.
  • The outside of an orange is bitter, but the inside is sweet.
  • These Moors are changeable in their wills; —fill thy purse with money: —the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. Act I. Scene III. Othello, the Moor of Venice
  • The record snow fall left behind bitter cold weather all across the region.
  • A sated man loathes honey, But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.
  • New Delhi and Islamabad will have to forget the bitter past, which is the main determinant of their perceptual distortions for a better and prosperous future.
  • I don't mean to sound bitter or cynical, but today I just can't help thinking that the world can keep on going to hell until I find a real marinara that I don't have to make myself.
  • Except, of course, for the bitter disappointment of his day lilies.
  • On display was a solid silver bitter dish which was presented to the show society over 100 years ago as the perpetual cup for the best dairy cow of any breed or class.
  • And thus, of articles of food, those which are unsuitable and hurtful to man when administered, every one is either bitter, or intensely so, or saltish or acid, or something else intense and strong, and therefore we are disordered by them in like manner as we are by the secretions in the body. On Ancient Medicine
  • Winning at Squash mirliton That last item can be replaced by a serrano; the mirliton squash also known as a chayote can be swapped for bitter melon varietals. Week in Words
  • The RSPB and English Nature revealed that bittern numbers have increased five fold in just seven years.
  • Some may play with salty and umami, but sweet, bitter and sour dominate, with sweet and bitter being the two we want to examine.
  • A new and more bitter tone can be detected in the rebel forces. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their bitterness poisons their attitude and their outlook on life.
  • I've covered stories about the market, and that the traders are complaining bitterly about its current placing (down Horne Lane).
  • It will make them bitter, resentful and more likely to offend. The Sun
  • Any such thing would be bitterly opposed by most of the world's democracies.
  • She makes some stuff which she calls farina out of it, and grieves bitterly that she is no longer young and spry enough to gather it for herself along the shore. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
  • It's true that we have been leading a difficult life, for we need not only to be under various external pressures, but also to be in the face of internal perplexities.You would be affected by the warmth of life if someone gives you an understanding look during your bitter struggle.Even a mere glance would make you moved and inpired.
  • Lately his slumber had been disturbed by dreams of yellow roses and pink heather, bachelor's-buttons and bitterroot and salmon poppies and moss rose and blue flax and red tulips and yellow water lilies.
  • It's been a bitter debate, with many castigating reporters of the case as conspiracy theorists and worse.
  • According to St. Basil, forty soldiers who had openly confessed themselves Christians were condemned by the prefect to be exposed naked upon a frozen pond near Sebaste on a bitterly cold night, that they might feeze to death. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • The croak of the great blue heron sounded again; then far away, mysterious and spirit-like, floated a soft _qua, qua, qua_ -- the cry of the least bittern out of the heart of the swamp. Roof and Meadow
  • There is, needless to say, some bitterness and disappointment that no system emerged after considerable expenditure.

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