6422 examples of bitter in sentences

It was a work of time, for the ice had frozen to several inches in thickness during the last bitter night.

ROUGH OAT-GRASS.This appears to have some merits, but the foliage is extremely bitter.

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.

It is bitter to the taste.

The plant is so extremely bitter, that although cattle may be inclined to feed on it early in the spring, yet as the season advances and other herbage more palatable is to be met with, it is left with its beautiful blue flowers and broad foliage to rob the soil and adorn our fields, to the regret of the farmer.

THE HOP.The Hop is cultivated for brewing, being the most wholesome bitter we have, though the brewers are in the habit of using other vegetable bitters, which are brought from abroad and sold at a much cheaper rate.

It forms a better cover for game than any other plant; and being very bitter, is not liable to be destroyed by any animal eating it down.

Bitter Purple Willow.

SWEET and BITTER ALMONDS.

L.E.D.These have a strong not ungrateful, aromatic smell, but a very bitter nauseous taste.

L.Wormwood is a strong bitter; and was formerly much used as such against weakness of the stomach, and the like, in medicated wines and ales.

These it may be in part freed from by keeping, and totally by long coction, the bitter remaining entire.

An extract made by boiling the leaves in a large quantity of water, and evaporating the liquor with a strong fire, proves a bitter sufficiently grateful, without any disgustful flavour. 178.

D.Southernwood has a strong, not very disagreeable smell; and a nauseous, pungent, bitter taste; which is totally extracted by rectified spirit, less perfectly by watery liquors.

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

L. E. D.Both the roots and leaves have a nauseous, bitter, acrimonious, hot taste; their smell is strong, and not very disagreeable.

The leaves have a penetrating bitter taste, not very strong or very durable, accompanied with an ungrateful flavour, which they are in great measure freed from by keeping.

The seeds of this plant are also considerably bitter, and have been sometimes used for the same purposes as the leaves.

L. E. D.This is justly esteemed to be the most efficacious bitter of all the medicinal plants indigenous to this country.

Many authors have observed, that, along with the tonic and stomachic qualities of a bitter, Centaury frequently proves cathartic; but it is possible that this seldom happens, unless it be taken in very large doses.

E.The bitter juice of the leaf, mixed with an equal part of Madeira wine, is recommended in an ounce dose night and morning, as a powerful diuretic in dropsy.

" The smile of the free-trader was bitter, and proud.

"If every one is against him and treats him as a wicked mischievous elf, it is only too likely to make him bitter and spiteful.

" "Ay, I fancy that Major Oakshott is a bitter Puritan in his own house; but no discipline could be too harsh for such a boy as that, according to all that I hear," said her ladyship, "nor does he look as if much were amiss with him so far as may be judged of features so strange and writhen.

" Peregrine had been well trained enough in that bitter school of home to make a correct bow, though his feelings were betrayed by his yellow eye going almost out of sight.

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