Use bitter in a sentence
Sentences starting with bitter
- Bitter before, now was she on fire. [9]
- Bitter controversies were waging in the Gazette, and names were called and duels fought weekly. [9]
- Bitter wrath rose up in his soul at this thought, as it had often done before, with the immortals, against whom he, the all-powerful, was impotent. [10]
- Bitter smiled by pulling down one corner of a crooked mouth. [9]
- Bitter need and passionate longing gazed defiantly, beseechingly, and threateningly at the people who crowded round the window. [10]
- Bitter was a legally authorized fox, and could take fees. [9]
- Bitter waters for Jane Withersteen! [13]
- Bitter grief spoke in every line of her still youthful features, and their stern, majestic beauty was in keeping with the deep tones of her speech. [10]
- Bitter tears of envy, so it was said, were shed in the other booths. [9]
- Bitter appeared and argued: in short, the procedure so familiar to modern students of political affairs was gone through. [9]
Sentences ending with bitter
- I admit I thought you held me utterly bad and heartless, and it made me bitter. [11]
- At such times the heart is bitter. [9]
- It takes a sort of almond shape, and is small and bitter. [5]
- In all Kuni's sorrowful life she had scarcely experienced any grief so bitter. [10]
- I knew that similar practices had been tried on Krebs, but this was the first time I had heard of a definite plan, and from a man like Bitter. [9]
- But youth comes only once, and thereafter the man gathers the fruit of it, sweet or bitter. [4]
- And the voices of Bartja and Nitetis were the loudest,--their tone the most bitter. [10]
- I owe him nothing, Richard--nothing but what is bitter. [11]
- She offered him money--before the landlord, unhappily --and his refusal was now unnecessarily bitter. [11]
- It will be, indeed, sweet at its first taste, when it heals you; but murmur not over Truth, if you find its digestion bitter. [5]
Short sentences using bitter
- Oh, bitter sight--he was swimming! [5]
- Sufficiently bitter thinkings they were. [5]
- He was very bitter. [11]
- It was a bitter night. [11]
- It was a bitter day. [12]
Sentences containing bitter two or more times
- She had bitter thoughts sometimes of the world, and bitter thoughts of the false system that controlled his conduct, but never of him. [4]
- Bitter, bitter was the grief of this poor young woman, when she heard that her friend was sick unto death, and deep is her mourning until this day. [14]
- Bitter, bitter luck that the tools were ever brought there! [5]
- This is bitter, but I feel bitter. [14]
More example sentences with the word bitter in them
- Take care, or you will have to drink that bitter brown stuff you sent yesterday; then you will know for once how nasty it can be. [10]
- What may delight you will cost bitter tears to many others, and so let us both hope that this splendid spectacle may now have reached its climax, and soon may come to an end. [10]
- They would not yield, they would listen to no terms, they would fight to the bitter end. [5]
- The day I wrote you--that night, I mean --she had a bitter attack of gout or rheumatism occupying the whole left arm from shoulder to fingers, accompanied by fever. [5]
- Every day I write (in my head) bitter magazine articles about it, but I have to stop with that. [5]
- But I'll be wretched and bitter no more. [13]
- But the second would weep bitter tears to think what a rayless and barren life that must be which could extract enjoyment from the miserable flimsy wand that has such magic attraction for sauntering youths and simpering maidens. [6]
- Then, in bitter words, I told them of my treatment by those rascals, and I showed them how my ankle had been tortured. [11]
- If Eva had witnessed his death she would have perceived the aptness of the saying that a monk's life is bitter, but his death is sweet. [10]
- Nor was it without great surprise and much speculation on Quilp's probable motives, nor without many bitter comments on Dick Swiveller's folly, that his friend received the tale. [12]
- I was wroth with the hard and bitter world for its cruelty; yet it was in truth that very world, and its pitiless call to duty, which at that time rescued me from worse things. [10]
- Yet even in winter it is not so bleak and bitter as the districts south-west of it, for the Chinook winds steal through from the Pacific and temper the fierceness of the frozen Rockies. [11]
- You, poor Gibbus, will find your labors bitter to-day. [10]
- The wench to whom he plighted his love was the daughter of a common craftsman, Pernhart the coppersmith, and when this came to my ears it angered me greatly; nay, and cost me bitter tears, as I told it to Ann. [10]
- But twelve bitter white men looked down upon this scene from the scrub and rocks above, and their teeth were set. [11]
- With a sigh which was half bitter and mocking laughter, he seized the pouncebox, dried his letter to Guida, and put it in his pocket. [11]
- The pure brow, which seemed to him too high for a woman's face, wore an indignant frown; and though her mouth was beautiful in form, its outlines were often marred by a passionate tremor that lent the exquisitely chiselled features a harsh, nay, bitter expression. [10]
- Yes, pitying kindness, which is a bitter sweet in which the amiable ingredient can hardly be said to predominate. [6]
- Were the tears which filled Eva's eyes caused by the smoke that poured from the fire more and more densely into the street, or to disappointment and bitter anguish? [10]
- There were days when they were both bitter at heart. [11]
- I was bitter when they steered me into a lockup in Hickory Street. [9]
- I was by when they parted, and she shed such bitter tears it was pitiable to see. [10]
- One bitter day, when the sun smiled mockingly on the powdered common, a horseman was perceived on the Fort Chartres road. [9]
- These accusations were what had encouraged the Negro to confiscate the young man's estate, particularly as the bitter tone of the patriarch's document sufficiently proved that in him he had found an ally. [10]
- Just now they were most concerned for her bitter misfortune. [11]
- His bitter reflections were interrupted by the appearance of Miss Lamont and the artist, and with them Mr. Benson. [4]
- Of course we were glad to see them and have them report all well; but still it was a bitter disappointment to us all. [5]
- His last days were evidently passed in a struggle for existence, which was not so bitter to him as it might have been to another man, for he was sustained by ever-elating "great expectations. [4]
- Those latter days were days of bitter worry and trouble for the harassed Reformers. [5]
- In the morning we both awoke and leaped out of bed at the same instant and ran and stripped aside the window-curtains; but we suffered a bitter disappointment again: it was already half past three in the afternoon. [5]
- Seeing who it was--a widow who, with no demureness, had tried without avail to bring Luke Claridge to her--her lips pressed together in a bitter smile, and she said to her nephew clearly: "Patience Spielman hath little hope of thee, David. [11]
- Yes, Cynthia's life was very bitter that summer, with but little hope on the horizon of it. [9]
- His scheme, now, was to prepare himself to speak from bitter experience. [5]
- Yet so great was the people's love for the Queen, so high their regard for the independence of Egypt, so bitter their hate of Rome, that there was no rebellion. [10]
- Such, for instance, was the estimable man to whom I have repeatedly referred as a warm defender of tractoration, and a bitter assailant of its enemies. [6]
- The bitter truth was slowly dawning upon the wife. [11]
- A bitter anger was on him. [11]
- His bitter secret was not hidden from Mahommed. [11]
- He supposed I was having a bitter hard time of it. [5]
- To Louis she was ever the same, affectionate, gentle, and unselfish; but her stronger soul ruled him without his knowledge, commanded his perturbed spirit into the abstracted quiet and bitter silence wherein he lived, and which she sought to cheer by a thousand happy devices. [11]
- Immeasurably bitter scorn was depicted in Ledscha's features as she gazed after Gula. [10]
- While her heart was daily growing more bitter against him, he had been fighting his vessel against great odds, and at last had been shipwrecked and carried off a prisoner. [11]
- Sometimes this quiet was broken by bitter news from France, of fresh persecution, and fresh struggle on the part of the Huguenots. [11]
- The bitter controversies, wars, and persecutions which have raged in its name are utterly alien to its being. [9]
- But since the war began Grandjon-Larisse had gone one way, and he had gone the other, bitter enemies in principle but friendly enough at heart. [11]
- After four years' waiting, after a bitter quarrel in which both had been to blame, he was coming from the mining town of Selby to marry her to- morrow. [11]
- It is great, very great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. [10]
- Sir Madok was very bitter, and brake out anew with cursings. [5]
- He had quietly vacated two curacies because there had been bitter complaints that the records of certain baptisms, marriages, and burials might only be found in the chequered journal of his life, sandwiched between fantastic reflections and remarks upon the rubric. [11]
- It was, as usual, a simple meal, and yet he could only swallow a few mouthfuls, for everything had a bitter taste. [10]
- What is the use of hunting down and holding to bitter account people who are responsible for other people's innocent acts? [5]
- He has held us spellbound upon the plain at the foot of the great Sphinx, and we have joined him in weeping bitter tears at the tomb of Adam. [5]
- He had looked upon it as a good joke, but now it had turned to bitter earnest. [10]
- He slowly went up to the chest in which his tools and instruments lay, and bitter tears ran down his cheeks, as he took his heaviest hammer in his hand. [10]
- Mother has made up her mind to the change, but grandmother is bitter about it. [6]
- That evening it turned bitter cold, and without the ammunition promised by Phips, with little or no food and useless field-pieces, their lot was hard. [11]
- But there was trouble in the laugh too--a bitter sickness. [11]
- The slender fingers trembled in his clasp, and when, with loving anxiety, he drew her towards him, he felt the tremor of her delicate limbs, while her eyes expressed bitter suffering and terrible dread. [10]
- After he had told her to go, she had had a bitter struggle: now tears, now anger, and a wish to hate. [11]
- No further visits to Monahan's saloon on my part, in this connection were necessary; but Mr. Otto Bitter met me one day in the hotel with a significant message from the boss. [9]
- Then he turned to Melissa and asked her: "Would you for their sakes be able to make up your mind to face bitter humiliation, nay, perhaps imminent danger? [10]
- Was this due to jealousy or merely wounded vanity at being supplanted in a heart which he firmly believed belonged, though only in bitter hate, solely to him? [10]
- Barbara gave way to her wrath and, while vehemently forbidding the unseemly jibe, glanced with a bitter smile toward the Emperor, who, in conversation with the two dignitaries, seemed to have forgotten everything around him. [10]
- He would like to have thrown a stone at the wagon, and in a rage he cried: "You're a nice...." but he could n't think of any hard, bitter words quick enough. [4]
- They are known to be bitter enemies, and it is said that Jethro Bass has but one object in returning to the field--to crush the president of the Truro Railroad. [9]
- The last bitter thrust of the Duke had touched no raw flesh, his withers were unwrung. [11]
- Well, we sped through the wild night, the bitter storm raged on, a cheerless misery stole over me, my heart went down, down, down! [5]
- If he walked through the town, it was with bitter, abstracted eyes that took little heed of their presence. [11]
- Two shall live through bitter days, and when the leaves shall shine in the sun again, there shall good things befal. [11]
- We were soaked through and it was bitter cold. [5]
- But the bare thought of having so soon lost the power to bind him to her aroused a storm of feeling in her passionate soul, and when it subsided bitter thoughts followed, and a series of plans which, on closer examination, proved impracticable. [10]
- It was as though the business before him was wholly alien to him, as though he were held there against his will, but would go on with his task bitterly to the bitter end. [11]
- But since hearing those words a bitter feeling had possessed her soul against Paula, and there had been much to foster it. [10]
- How often had those bitter anguished words of his mother rung in her ears-- "So brilliant and unscrupulous, like yourself; but, oh, so sure of winning a great place in the world . [11]
- She had noticed this at the assembly of the Knights of the Golden Fleece, when he looked at King Philip with bitter hate or certainly with dislike and scorn. [10]
- Why only to think of it makes my mouth as bitter, as if I were chewing wormwood. [10]
- When he said they must be going, Gorgo kissed the little singer; indeed, as soon as she saw how deeply she was grieved, shedding bitter but silent tears, she had hastened to take her in her arms and comfort her like a sister. [10]
- Since her return they had laughed and talked as of old when they had met, though her own heart was aching, and he was bitter against the Seigneur. [11]
- I have lost thee, my poor little mad master--it is a bitter thought--and I had come to love thee so! [5]
- She had watched the tiny fragments burn in a fire not hotter than that in her own eyes, which presently were washed by a flood of bitter tears and passionate and unavailing protest. [11]
- This hour transformed the sweetest joy to bitter grief; may it be the salvation of our people! [10]
- The final separation, the spectacle of his pale corpse, gave me more acute bitter pain than I could have imagined. [14]
- So bitter was the resentment which filled his soul that he could not bring himself to seek her on the following day; but she awaited him with the sorrowful fear that she had saddened the return of her best and truest friend. [10]
- We know what the prevailing--we do not mean universal--spirit and temper of those people have been for generations, and what they are like to be after a long and bitter warfare. [6]
- The thought of the old man lonely and bitter in his room decided her. [9]
- The conscience of the North was slow to rise against it, though bitter controversies from time to time took place. [7]
- Never before had the much-courted woman, who had full faith in her gift of prophesy, felt so bitter, sore, and irritated. [10]
- Here, then, was the most obvious opportunity--a man in trouble who had not deserved the bitter bad luck which had come to him. [11]
- She had stifled the leap of her wrath, but for perhaps the first time in her life a bitter derision curled her lips. [13]
- I hastily placed the lamps, took the clay in my hand, and feature by feature I brought forth with bitter joy the image that is deeply graven in my heart, believing that thus I might be released from the spell. [10]
- A bout with the gloves would let off the ill-nature, and cure the indigestion, which, united, have embroiled their subject in a bitter controversy. [6]
- As she neared the doorway of the cottage, a few heavy drops began to fall, and, in spite of her bitter trouble, she quickened her footsteps, fearing that her grandfather had come back, to find the house empty and no light or supper ready. [11]
- Gratitude knocked at the door of her heart but it was instantly met by bitter defiance; what was one hour of happiness in the balance against a ruined lifetime? [10]
- In Old England the daughter would have eaten the bitter bread of a governess in some rich family. [6]
- The melon and the date have gone bitter to the taste, The weevil, it has eaten at the core The core of my heart, the mildew findeth it. [11]
- No sooner did the danger seem past than bitter strife sprang up within the walls. [9]
- And now, by the car window, looking out over the endless roll of the prairie, the memory of this was bitter within her. [9]
- He, after disrupting the calm tenor of her peace, after bringing down on her head the implacable hostility of her churchmen, after teaching her a bitter lesson of life--he was to be her salvation. [13]
- I have learned the bitter taste of the bread which you provide. [10]
- It was so that these Southern families, who were so bitter against Abolitionists and Yankees, entertained them when they were poor, and nursed them when they were ill. Stephen, for his life, could not utter a word. [9]
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