Which preposition to use with bitterness

of Occurrences 484%

"Only a safe," said Mr. BENTHAM, with inexplicable bitterness of tone.

in Occurrences 93%

Captain Parkinson doesn't take enough stock in my report to tell me to withhold anything," said Edwards, with a trace of bitterness in his voice.

against Occurrences 37%

My heart was full of bitterness against the stolid retainers of a family who were content to risk other people's children and comfort rather than let a house be empty.

to Occurrences 29%

The course of English life in those stations where the worst cruelties and the bitterest sufferings have been inflicted on the unhappy Europeans has been for a long time so peaceful and undisturbed, it has gone on for the most part in such pleasant and easy quiet and with such absolute security, that the agony of sudden alarm and unwarned violence has added its bitterness to the overwhelming horror.

with Occurrences 17%

Time has done much to soften the bitterness with which their conduct filled me, and as I look back now across the score of years that lie between, I can appreciate to some degree their attitude toward our commander.

on Occurrences 16%

This occupation not only gives deep offence to Germany (France has always looked back with implacable bitterness on the few months' military occupation by her Prussian conquerors in the war of 1870), but it paralyses all her activity and is generally judged to be completely useless.

at Occurrences 15%

The very heart of him was sick and full of bitterness at the sudden slap which fate had given him.

toward Occurrences 11%

I am sure he did not represent the true Yale spirit, for he was full of criticism and bitterness toward the institution.

from Occurrences 9%

"You are wrong," he said in a jovial way so as to drive all bitterness from the discussion.

towards Occurrences 7%

In bitterness towards the Russian State the Socialist journals were solid in their hostility, but the author has only discovered expressions of abhorrence in their columns concerning the ill-treatment, even murder, of innocent foreigners in Germany.

about Occurrences 5%

There's a bitterness about it that the poor man can never know.

between Occurrences 5%

I hope also to show to India and the Empire at large that given a certain amount of capacity for self-sacrifice, justice can be secured by peacefullest and cleanest means without sowing or increasing bitterness between English and Indians.

out Occurrences 5%

And a gloomy picture rose in Donnegan's mind of the invalid, thin-faced, sallow-eyed, white-haired, lying in his bed listening to the storm and silently gathering bitterness out of the pain of living.

over Occurrences 4%

The poet, in the midst of his bitterness over the present conduct of his city, clings the more to its old fame for humanity.

among Occurrences 4%

There has never at any time been any such outbreak of fury and bitterness among the English or French people.

for Occurrences 4%

Thou wilt go seeking through the world, and find all hearts closed against thee, and their sweet affections turned to bitterness for my sake.

as Occurrences 3%

" The words were simple enoughspoken, too, without sadness or bitterness as a mere abstract matter of fact, but they aroused all the pen-and-ink chivalry in Tom's nature, and he vowed in his heart to lay goose-quill in rest on her behalf, with the devotion of a Montmorency or a Bayard.

into Occurrences 3%

It is the failure to realize this quality of spirit that has given rise to all the theological errors that have brought bitterness into the world and has been prominent amongst the causes which have retarded the true development of mankind.

like Occurrences 2%

" Then Robin Hood said no more but gave the money to Little John to put away in the treasury, for he had shrewdness enough to know that nought breeds ill will and heart bitterness like gifts forced upon one that cannot choose but take them.

amongst Occurrences 1%

And, as in the times of Flamsteed and Halley, the earnest zeal of men of science occasionally led to much controversy and bitterness amongst them.

under Occurrences 1%

" It was said smilingly, yet there was bitterness under the words as well.

than Occurrences 1%

But there was more bitterness than joy in the unpacking, and the dresses hung in her wardrobe like so many unfulfilled promises of pleasure, reminding her of the days at the Stentorian when she had reviewed other finery with the same cheated eyes.

by Occurrences 1%

I was continually at war with the Confederate Americans, galled to extreme bitterness by the right I had of compelling them to take the oath of allegiance before renewing their passports.

behind Occurrences 1%

His surrender on the religious question had left a rankling bitterness behind it; the problem of the clothes was acutely painful.

within Occurrences 1%

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

Which preposition to use with  bitterness