In my political career I have found many bitternesses; but the campaign waged against me has not disturbed me at all.

It was the great political feature in the history of Europe for ten years after the fall of Napoleon, particularly in Austria, where hatred of all popular movements raged with exceeding bitterness, intensified by the revolutions in Spain, Italy, and Greece.

On the whole, there was a general tendency towards democratic ideas, which was opposed with great bitterness by the conservative parties, made up of nobles and government officials.

It is a proof of the exceeding bitterness of political parties that such ingratitude should have been shown to one of the greatest scholars that Oxford has produced for a century.

By the very bitterness of their antecedents, the cruelty of their inheritance, they gained a deeper sense of the reality of life, a more just sense of right and wrong, a clearer vision of things as they were, than happened in the case of those who had no such experience of the deep brutality of the regime of post-Renaissance society.

He now writes a series of essays, called "Letters from the Mountain," full of bitterness and anti-Christian sentiments.

At the height of his fame he regretted and suppressed this youthful production of malice and bitterness.

Not yet had he expressed bitterness and wrath against the country which gave him birth; he simply found England dull, and craved adventures in foreign lands as unlike England as he could find.

Now, as you shall mind, I had spied the shine of certain fire-holes somewhat to the Northward, and had thought to make thereabouts a place for my sleep; for, in truth, there was a bitterness of cold in all the air of night that did surround me; and I was warmed nigh to a slow happiness, by thinking upon a fire to lie beside; and small wonder, as you shall say.

The sound of the laughter of the men and women of the shooting-party aroused a poignant bitterness within her.

Two hours of mortal anguish, spent in unoccupied and weary waiting, during which they tasted a hundred times over the bitterness of parting.

Their words are as soft as oil, but bitterness is in their hearts; like Alexander VI.

Becquer's verses are less musical, but the sentiment expressed by them is less artificial, and gives evidence of more real bitterness of heart.

Madame Clerambault would come back full of bitterness, and Rosine suffered too, though she pretended not to mind.

Both parties mean well; but they unhappily cherish towards each other great bitterness of feeling.

I think I am getting into my dotage, my dear, or I should hardly talk to you like this,' said Lady Maulevrier, with a touch of bitterness.

Lesbiawell, Lesbia has been a kind of infatuation for me, and like all infatuations mine has ended in disappointment and bitterness.

It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic.

The life of a poor student is not, one may fear, even yet exempt from much bitterness, and in those days the position was far more servile than at present.

In the bitterness of my heart I could hardly speak.

Beyond VallŽcy had come misunderstanding, bitterness, misfortune.

They awoke, it may be saidat least the younger generation of themto what he really was; the old jars and bitternesses had passed out of remembrance; they only felt that they had one among them who could writefor few of them ever heard his wonderful voicein a way which made English hearts respond quickly and warmly.

Stern and severe in his teaching at one time,at least as he was understood,beyond even the severity of Puritanism, he was yet overflowing with affection, tender and sympathetic to all who came near him, and, in the midst of continual controversy, he endeavoured, with deep conscientiousness, to avoid the bitternesses of controversy.

I think his failure as Othello was one of the unspoken bitternesses of Henry's life.

Moreover, his temper was probably soured by secret bitternesses.