" Bitter at heart was the dame to see her love so scorned.

"Bitter was the price exacted for the recklessness!

Out of Babylon THEIR looks for me are bitter, And bitter is their word I may not glance behind unseen, I may not sigh unheard.

Curiously enough, the closer one got to the actual fight, the less bitter was the feeling between participants, the greater their respect for one another, and the less credulous their belief in the enemy's barbarity.

Yes, bitter is the lot of the orphan, for even if they have means they are no better off than the poor!

[aa]Of all the griefs, that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

Bitter was life for Rhona Hemlitz, seventeen years old.... * *

At night I could not sleep, and bitter were my thoughts, my revilings against a cruel fate that had condemned mea man with so sensitive a heart and so generous a natureto the sorrows of perpetual solitude.

The other party, leagued with Moabites, Tyrians, Egyptians, and other nations, thought themselves strong enough to break their allegiance to Nebuchadnezzar; and bitter were the contentions of these parties.

My trembling soul; Though bitter, bitter is the night Whose darkling clouds this moment round me roll. "Had I but listened to your plea, I ne'er had met Disaster; though this life be lost to me, Let not your ban upon my soul be set.

We had a sad scene that night; the young girl to whom poor Allen was engaged was heartbroken at her lover's doom, and bitter were her cries to "save my William!".

Bitter were the complaints of his courtiers that there was never any moment of rest for himself or his servants; in war time indeed, they grumbled, excessive toil was natural, but time of peace was ill-consumed in continual vigils and labours and in incessant travelone day following another in merciless and intolerable journeyings.

As a symbol of bitterness the aloe has long been in repute, and "as bitter as aloes" is a proverbial expression, doubtless derived from the acid taste of its juice.

Long have we waited, and bitter has been our bondage; and even our own Herod has been more cruel than our foes.

Bitter was their penitence and that of her companions at the state in which they found her.

As a symbol of bitterness the aloe has long been in repute, and "as bitter as aloes" is a proverbial expression, doubtless derived from the acid taste of its juice.

That will be as bitter as boneset!" "Thin her up with milk and she'll be all right," replied Red.

He was identified with the lifting away of a burden more bitter than captivity itself.

Oh how lonely it is in the world, when you are a wanderer, and can be known of none" "You were warned," said he who was in authority, "that it was more bitter than death."

A WALNUT As soft as silk, as white as milk, As bitter as gall, a strong wall, And a green coat covers me all.

Oh, Isak was more bitter than need be; he knew well enough that Sivert was going to the post.

Others pretend that this plain is not inundated by the sea, but that it possesses saline springs, more bitter than sea water, which send forth their waters when the tempest rages.

Pleasant at first she is, like Dioscorides Rhododaphne, that fair plant to the eye, but poison to the taste, the rest as bitter as wormwood in the end (Prov. v. 4.) and sharp as a two-edged sword, (vii. 27.)

They would measure Christianity by their traditions; and the smaller the point of difference seemed to the enlightened Paul, the bitterer were the contests,even as many of the schisms which subsequently divided the Church originated in questions that appear to us to be absolutely frivolous.

He then strove to fancy that "Medoro" was a feigned name, intended for himself; but he felt that he was trying to delude himself, and that the more he tried, the bitterer was his conviction of the truth.