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Sentences starting with bitterness

Bitterness and resentment and dark suspicion were in her mind--and in his. [11]

Sentences ending with bitterness

He had spoken without bitterness. [9]
We are aware that it is sometimes a temporary gratification, when a friend cannot succeed, to be able to choose between opponents; but we believe that that gratification is the seed-time which never fails to be followed by a most abundant harvest of bitterness. [7]
She herself had suffered--her own life had been maimed, it had had its secret bitterness. [11]
I could not speak for sorrow, for very bitterness. [9]
And when I pictured my uncle soothing him to his face, and grinning behind his bed-curtains, my anger would scald me, and the realization of my helplessness bring tears of very bitterness. [9]
He had respected, perhaps partly imagined her feelings, and in spite of these now a sense of gratitude to him stole over her, mitigating the intensity of their bitterness. [9]
He carried it off altogether too well, and both the studied lightness of his actions and the increased carelessness of his manner made me fear that what before was feigned, might turn to a real bitterness. [9]
But on account of his brothers, in this dismal wreck of a family connection, his soul was steeped in bitterness. [4]
I mean loss of good-will, good name--that which would have enabled me to stand up in this village without bitterness. [13]
It looks pleasant now; but when the sun mounts higher and we find no water, we shall taste the bitterness. [10]

Short sentences using bitterness

Do I blame his bitterness? [9]

Sentences containing bitterness two or more times

She burned to blot it forever from the book Oh, the bitterness of that day, which was prophecy of the bitterness to come. [9]

More example sentences with the word bitterness in them

He rubbed his wrist, which had been squeezed by Pentaur's iron fingers, and said in a tone which betrayed all the bitterness of his feelings: "Thy hand is hard, Priest, and thy words hit like the strokes of a hammer. [10]
With her the words would have been wrenched forth from her heart, scarred into the paper with the bitterness of a spirit tried beyond enduring. [11]
And I recalled, with mingled bitterness and tenderness, the turn of her head, the down on her neck, the half-revealed curve of her arm.... [9]
Her heart burned with fresh bitterness to think that there had been a secret marriage. [11]
It was tinged with bitterness and had the smart of the nettle. [11]
Perhaps that was why, though Shiel loved her, he had had a bitterness which galled his soul; why he had a determination to win sufficient wealth to make himself independent of her. [11]
Mr. Cooke himself, who particularly savored of brimstone, would much better have remained behind the arras, for he was denounced with such energy and bitterness that those who might have attempted his defence were silent, and their very silence told against them. [9]
Harvey in particular, who had come from England early in the century with my grandfather, spoke with bitterness of him. [9]
And after dinner, when he started talking with a ridicule that was a thinly disguised bitterness about the Citizens Union and their preparations for a campaign I left him and went to bed. [9]
Mrs. Townley guessed what was really at the bottom of Marion's occasional bitterness, and, piecing together many little things dropped casually by her friend, had come to the conclusion that the happiness of two people was at stake. [11]
She had never wept so before; no anguish, no bitterness was infused into the sweet refreshing dew of those tears. [10]
Her natural heart was struggling against her old bitterness towards Galt Roscoe and her partial hate of Ruth Devlin. [11]
The matron's voice was full of bitterness as she greeted her young visitor with the exclamation "You look as if you had fled to escape persecution! [10]
The masses"--and there was an accent of bitterness in her use of the phrase--"must organize and fight for anything they want. [4]
If he is visited by infirmity--only look at me!--how much misery I have suffered from this curse, terrible enough in itself, and tainting everything with the bitterness of wormwood! [10]
His joy collapsed utterly, and he turned away and moped toward the door moaning and lamenting over the bitterness of his luck. [5]
Now, it is true, he was justified in thinking her harsh and unfeeling, for where love had once blossomed in her soul, a spring of bitterness now gushed forth poisoning all it touched. [10]
His self-respect was trampled under foot, love and happiness were forfeited, there was naught before him save a colorless, charmless future, full of bitterness and mental anguish. [10]
It is easy to understand the bitterness which is often shown towards reformers. [6]
Sorry am I to say the reverse has been the fact: fallen, proscribed, prejudged, the cup of bitterness has been administered to him with an unsparing hand. [4]
I always hate to fool away a humorous thing on a person who has no perception of humor; and it filled me with bitterness when this man went soberly away to submit the last proposition to his principal. [5]
Let me sweeten these closing paragraphs of an essay not meaning to hold a word of bitterness with a passage or two from the lay-preacher who is listened to by a larger congregation than any man who speaks from the pulpit. [6]
To his ear there was in her voice a little touch--not of bitterness, but of something, as it were, muffled or reserved. [11]
In spite of the tone of bitterness in which he had spoken, Eldon Parr smiled. [9]
I went into the inn and sat down upon an oak settle in a corner of the bar, under the high lattice, and thought of the bitterness of this home-coming. [9]
She had tasted the cup of bitterness and drunk of the waters of sacrifice. [11]
He had lacked the courage to speak of his father's bitterness and animosity. [9]
I was increasing the chances against myself all the time, by feeling a secret bitterness against Lem for having attracted this fatal attention to me, but I could not help it--this sinful thought persisted in infesting my breast in spite of me. [5]
But she laid the blame not at his door; she rather shrank with inner bitterness from the cynical cruelty of nature, which, in deforming the body, with a merciless cruelty had deformed a noble mind. [11]
Herbert speaks with the bitterness of a bachelor shut out of paradise. [4]
He alone sees the bitterness in my heart this day. [9]
The second is the absence of all business and conversation of friends, which might divert your mind, give it occasional rest from the intensity of thought which will sometimes wear the sweetest idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death. [7]
I think--I think that some of their bitterness might be taken away. [9]
And yet, in that moment of bitterness Virginia loved him. [9]
Well she knew that but for her he would long since have fled southward, and often in the bitterness of the night-time she blamed herself for not telling him to go. [9]
She wanted to tell Philip all the feelings that possessed her; but how dared she write just what she felt: love and bitterness, joy and indignation, exaltation and disappointment, all in one? [11]
Joan said: "Paying taxes with naught to pay them with is what the rest of France has been doing these many years, but we never knew the bitterness of that before. [5]
Then the judge surrendered to the prisoner, and with bitterness in his voice told her to take the oath after her own fashion. [5]
A great bitterness suddenly welled up in her. [11]
He knew that such a strike as this had engendered bitterness, there had been much suffering, sacrifice undoubtedly on both sides, but he was sure, if Mr. Antonelli and the Committee would accept their services here he was interrupted. [9]
A woman may stand by a man who breaks the law, but in her heart she always has bitterness, for that the world shall speak well of herself and what she loves is the secret desire of every woman. [11]
He had never spoken of the bitterness of that, even to his mother. [9]
This afforded Heinz some consolation, but enough remained to keep his grief alive, and his voice sounded very sorrowful as he added: "That lessens the bitterness of the cup. [10]
And yet we should not therefore disdain it, for it is that very drop of bitterness which warns us to drink of the joys of life thankfully, and in moderation. [10]
When the first shock of her futile appeal to Lassiter had passed, Jane took his cold, silent condemnation and abrupt departure not so much as a refusal to her entreaty as a hurt and stunned bitterness for her attempt at his betrayal. [13]
That very afternoon she had told the Cure, with indignation and bitterness, that there was no doubt about it; all that had been said was true. [11]
Is that ancient seat of power deserted, and does Jethro Bass sit there alone behind the curtains, in his bitterness, thinking of other bright June days that are gone? [9]
But--for your own sake, too--" A terrible bitterness darkened her eyes, and her lips quivered. [13]
I suppose," he said, with a touch of intense bitterness, "that you, too, who six months ago seemed as reasonable a man as I ever met, have joined in the chorus of denunciators. [9]
It was the sacrament that washed out the memory of long years of bitterness, and I should hold it an unworthy thought to defend her. [6]
I fed upon roots, and in my bitterness I dug for the bitterest, loathing the sweeter kind. [5]
To remove all roots of bitterness, De la Tour married Madame de Charnise, and history does not record any ill of either of them. [4]
Her bitterness, her resentment had its origin in the fact that he did not understand--and yet in his crude big way he had really understood better than Ian Stafford. [11]
At first, the remembrance of her contained nothing save bitterness, but now, by quiet, persistent effort, he had succeeded, not in attaining forgetfulness, but in being able to separate painful emotions from the pure and exquisite joy of remembering her. [10]
But he did read it, with what anger and bitterness may be imagined. [9]
Time, bitterness, and power had hardened Philip's mind, and his long-restrained emotions, breaking loose now, made him a passionate and wilful figure. [11]
The selfishness in politics, the jealousy in letters, the bickering in art, the bitterness in theology, are all as nothing compared to the sweet charities, sacrifices, and deferences of private life. [4]
It is a pleasure, my dears, when writing of that hour of bitterness, to record the moments of sweetness which lightened it. [9]
The Catholics have persecuted the Protestants with bloody and awful bitterness, but they never closed agriculture and the handicrafts against them. [5]
He knew the passionate excitement, fairly well controlled; he saw her bitterness at a glance. [11]
I quote a passage from it: "As far as I know my own mind, I am thoroughly a republican, and attached, from complete conviction, to the institutions of my country; but I am a republican without gall, and have no bitterness in my creed. [4]
He states his own opinions and feelings, and leaves it to be inferred that he has good grounds for adopting them; but he spares the Americans the bitterness which a detail of the circumstances would have produced. [5]
For he not only works hard and suffers humiliation in getting his place in society, but after he is in he works just as hard, and with bitterness in his heart, to keep out other parvenues like himself. [4]
In this way only can I account for my bitterness, at a very early age, against that King whom my seeming environment should have made me love. [9]
Whenever she thought of that supplication she again felt the bitterness she had tasted on the rope. [10]
How the remainder of that Jacksonian ticket was elected, down to the very hog-reeves, and amid what turmoil of the Democracy and bitterness of spirit of the orthodox, I need not recount. [9]
Truly, the bitterness of life, as the joy of it, is distilled in strong drops. [9]
The mutilated dignity of his manhood, the broken pride of a lifetime, the bitterness in his heart need not be held in check in dealing with the man who waited to give him a last thrust of enmity. [11]
But, the bitterness of her grief was not in beholding him in this condition, when he was at least content and tranquil, nor in her solitary meditations on his altered state, though these were trials for a young heart. [12]
So the sense of desolation and bitterness took possession of me. [14]
All the bitterness of defeat was on him again. [11]
In that moment of deep bitterness his reason wavered. [9]
Remembering Jane's accusation of bitterness, he tried hard to put aside his rancor in judging Tull. [13]
And a look of bitterness coming into her face--does the fool think he can escape so? [5]
As it was now evident that the future was to be one of renunciation, of self-forgetting, an oblivion tinged with bitterness, he formlessly reasoned in favor of reconsidering his resolution against Fulkerson's offer. [8]
In this hour no pleasant reminiscences of past family happiness came to infuse a drop of sweetness into the bitterness of her grief. [10]
I believe in no man" --his voice had a sharp bitterness, though his face was smooth and unemotional--"but I trust you, and believe in you. [11]
Her father stood near her, all the lines in his face deepened into bitterness. [11]
Her soul was moved by the same feelings, only there was now a touch of bitterness. [10]
It was a mild affair, and the remembrance of it makes me smile to this day, though with bitterness. [9]
A growing ignorant mass in our body politic, inevitably cherishing bitterness of feeling, is an increasing peril to the public. [4]
If she ever lost her temper, it was when she let her mind run in this nihilistic channel, in bitterness against the whole social organization, and the total outcome of civilization so far as the mass of humanity is concerned. [4]
The woman had lived apart from the daily experiences of her husband's life in Dublin; and it had deepened her bitterness against him. [11]
And as for letting go the helm now," he added, with a short laugh tinged with bitterness, "I'd be posted all over the country as a coward. [9]
But it was let out to many more that day, and they went home praising him who had once pronounced his name with bitterness. [9]
Was there anything left in her heart but hate and bitterness, a sense of an infamous wrong at the hands of the only man she had ever loved? [5]
He laughed a laugh that was all bitterness. [9]
I think a large part of the bitterness of the condemned arises from a sense of the inequality with which justice is administered. [4]
She had been kindly disposed toward all who were of her blood, and were devoted to the sacred cause of her people, and now her hostile bitterness had wounded one of the best and noblest. [10]
It lacks energy, it lacks force of character, it lacks bitterness. [5]
Whenever he saw it he recalled Sarony with bitterness and severity. [5]
We know what is the bitterness of those who have escaped this bloody harvest of the remorseless conspirators; and from that we can judge of the elements of destruction incorporated with many of the seemingly solid portions of the fabric of the rebellion. [6]
The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. [5]
The seizures and intended sale of secession property had stirred up immense bitterness and indignation in the city. [9]
Although there had indeed been bitterness in his soul, it passed away in the atmosphere of Mr. Bentley's house. [9]
He said it in a quite matter-of-course way and without bitterness, just as a person might talk about bricks or manure or any other thing that was of no consequence and hadn't feelings. [5]
Who would have imagined on coming to Egypt, that this luxuriant, laughing sunny land, whose sky is always unclouded, could possibly produce and nourish men given to bitterness and severity? [10]
It was as if some past misfortune had opened his eyes to the awful bitterness of life, and they had never closed again. [11]
He felt as if he must cleanse himself to his very soul, not only from the dust of many weeks, but from the rebellion and despondency, the ignominy and bitterness, and the contact with vice and degradation. [10]
The ills that I have undergone in this life have been dealt out to me drop by drop, and I have tasted all their bitterness. [4]

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