For an instant they felt the bitterness of death; a cry of agony and terror that pierced even the thick walls and windows of the Astronaut reached my ears.

When their task was ended, they entered Paradise together; for the fair woman, without tasting the bitterness of death, became immortal like the angel, whose love her beauty had won, when she sat by the river twining the forget-me-not in her hair."

No one knew the bitterness in this girl's heart as she contemplated her own reflection.

The possibility that he, a Protestant, might wield the sceptre of Saint Louis, his ancestor, increased the bitterness and animosity of the Catholics.

It is adding the bitterness of sarcasm to his punishment.

But it's written, and it's true"The heart knoweth its own bitterness.

The hostility of public opinion toward us in the West in connection with Finnish matters is much to be regretted, but hopes may be entertained that under the influence of better information on Finnish affairs this hostility may lose its present bitterness.

Even this was not all, and when he had poured out the bitterness of his heartand Clerambault's compassion encouraged him to speak furtherhe got down to the worst of the trouble, which he and his comrades felt like a cancer that one does not dare to look at.

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.

Most of the eleven points were concerned with proposals for the removal either of forms of corruption, or of restraints on personal liberty, and they were directed chiefly against those interferences with the life and teaching of the universities which were causing so much bitterness in Vienna.

The newspapers and the correspondents at Paris openly complained and the delegates to the Conference in a more guarded way showed their bitterness at the overlordship assumed by the leading statesmen of the Great Powers and the secretive methods which they employed.

With what bitterness he left the class each day, and, guessing the reason for the treatment accorded him, what tears sprang into his eyes and what complaints were stifled in his heart!

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.

And it brought him only increased bitterness.

He knew it, though the thought did not help to allay his bitterness.

Relations meet and embrace, after having suffered almost the bitterness of death.

Miss Annabel's tone held bitterness.

'It is a common thing to hear the bitterness of religious discord here deplored.

Nothing so prosperous and pleasant, but it hath some bitterness in it, some complaining, some grudging; it is all [Greek: glukupikron], a mixed passion, and like a chequer table black and white: men, families, cities, have their falls and wanes; now trines, sextiles, then quartiles and oppositions.

The diplomatic correspondence which the British Government proposed should take place did take place between Germany and Denmark, but it only produced increased bitterness and further irritation.

They revealed "the heart's own bitterness."

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.

In all my travels through France I have never seen any bitterness shown towards the prisoners.

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

Then why canna we get together i' the beginning, and avoid the bitterness, and the cost of the struggle?