37 adverbs to describe how to bitters

A dry bob (literally = a blow or fillip that does not break the skin) is an intensely bitter taunt, cf.

The beer was exceedingly bitter.

But that it is the arbitrary will of another which inflicts the suffering, is a peculiarly bitter addition to the pain or injury it causes, viz., the consciousness that some one else is superior to us, whether by force or cunning, while we lie helpless.

She did not probably intend to be specially bitter, but bitterness of expression was common to her.

His lips curled ironically over the words; they sounded inexpressibly bitter.

One day when he could not get at the books, and his mood was more than usually fretful, and his mother seemed at her lowest, she suddenly turned on him and said in a strangely bitter tone: "All I have to go through now is your fault, Keith.

As a last effort he had then represented the deplorable state of his health, and entreated that he might be permitted to travel in order to regain his strength, leaving his wife and children at Marcoussis; a favour which also was not only refused, but the refusal rendered doubly bitter by a prohibition either to see or correspond with his daughter, whose safety was at that moment endangered by the menaces of the Queen.

As he began unlacing her boots a curiously bitter thought came to him.

"These taste deliciously bitter and good!"

ListenI have an enemya bitter enemy who threatened meactually dared to threaten me last nightwho would hesitate at nothing to do me an injury.

TALL OAT-GRASS.From the good appearance of this grass some persons have recommended it as likely to be useful for forming meadows; but it is excessively bitter, and is not liked by cattle generally, though when starved they are sometimes observed to eat of it.

This woman had accepted her trial, but she took it up as an inflexible fate which she did not understand; it was new to her; its solitude, its hopeless thirst were freshly bitter.

Even his Majesty's Consuls sometimes suffer from homesickness, and long for the smell of the London gutters and a glass of homely bitter ale.

So directly her father had gone, the woman set to work and cooked the peacock with mowah oil cake; but when her husband and children began to eat it they found it horribly bitter and she herself tasted it and found it uneatable; then she told them that her father had made fun of her and made her spoil all the meat.

The fight was inaugurated by a preliminary literary skirmish, which was, at the outset, limited to the university students; but it gradually assumed an increasingly bitter character, both parties growing more and more exasperated.

He is a man now much employed in commendations of our navy, and a bitter inveigher against the Spaniard.

Jerry didn't tell you that; but it's that makes him talk kinda bitter, sometimes.

Towards evening they came on a buffalo, and wounded it; but faint and weak from hunger, they shot badly, and the buffalo escaped; a disappointment literally as bitter as death.

Roman wormwood is less ungrateful than either of the others: its smell is tolerably pleasant: the taste, though manifestly bitter, scarcely disagreeable.

"I have frequently compelled myself to seek active employment," answered Ellen, "lest those hopes should be indeed but fading visions, and my disappointment more painfully bitter.

The widow's jaws worked in unobtrusive rumination on a piece of pleasantly bitter fungus, the Indian substitute for quinine, which the Chippewas called waubudone.

Many who will not stand a direct reproof, and cannot abide to be plainly admonished of their fault, will yet endure to be pleasantly rubbed, and will patiently bear a jocund wipe; though they abominate all language purely bitter or sour, yet they can relish discourse having in it a pleasant tartness.

That remarkably bitter individual nestled round the men as they sat sunning themselves, and soon compelled them to leap up and apply to other sources for heat.

Consequently, his lot, though dull, was seldom bitter; and many mitigations of it were within his privilege.

Other sermons reflect the singularly bitter anti-Catholic feeling which was characteristic even of indifferentism in those daysat any rate amongst Whig divines.

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