In general pale coloured beans are less bitter and more valuable than purple beans.
Fermentation is not universally practised; the purple colour and bitter taste of unfermented cacao being wanted in some markets.
They are exceedingly hard and difficult to pulverize, odourless, bitter and readily confused with black mustard seeds.
Roasting also develops with the aromatic caffeone above alluded to a bitter soluble principle, and it liberates a portion of the caffeine from its combination with the caffetannic acid.
Pale-coloured beans usually require less time than the deep purple and bitter kinds.
Bertrand to contain no caffeine at all, but instead a considerable quantity of a bitter principle.
The process of fermenting destroys the mucilage; the seeds lose to some degree their bitter flavour and their colour also changes: the pale criollo seeds, for example, developing a cinnamon-brown colour.
The beans possess a fetid odour and a bitter flavour and are known as "tiger cacao.
The fruit is round, and about the size of an orange; it has a thick yellowish rind, and a light, spongy and very bitter pulp, which yields the colocynth of druggists.
He devised a treatment of hot baths, hot teas, and bitter herbs; and Cyrus was rescued from the fever and restored to perfect health.
But at least you will give style and epigram and pure English," said poor Florence, who was sore after the bitter words with which her own production had been received.
But I've told you of the bitter feeling he had toward all banks, and he'd counted so long on turning over that identical gold to his creditors that he couldn't give it up.
He thinks such a lot of himself that it must have been a bitter pill to swallow.
O bitter fool, to chide A father so, when I might lose my daughter!
An hour past came Cromwell here As full of sorrow for the king; as thou-- Hating the sour and surly Presbyter And bitter wrath of the fierce Parliament.
Sympathy Is just as often born of happiness, As bitter suffering of the world's contempt.
I say the King of England henceforth is An alien in blood, a bitter traitor-- What doth he merit of us?
There was not much in the years gone to soften his thought, as it grew desperate and cruel: there was oppression and vice heaped on him, and flung back out of his bitter heart.
It was a bitter disappointment, but she roused herself even then to smile, and tell him yes, cheerfully.
Remembering, with bitter remorse, how all his life he had meant to try and do better, on her account, but had kept putting off and putting off until now.
Once, a bitter laugh came on her face, as she looked into the glass, and saw the dead, dull eyes, and the wrinkle on her forehead.
It was a bitter disappointment to give up the girl; for, beside the great work, he loved her in an uncouth fashion, and hated Holmes.
It sent him back more mad against Destiny, his heart more bitter in its great pity.
He looked at her a moment, then by some effort choked down the word he would have spoken, and went on with hisbitter confession.
It was bitter cold: he buttoned up his coat tightly, as he walked slowly along as if waiting for some one,--wondering dully if the gray air were any colder or stiller than the heart hardly beating under the coat.
On the very faces of those who sneered at him he found some trace of failure, something that his heart carried up to God with a loud and exceeding bitter cry.
She could too easily guess his bitter and humiliating retorts to either proposition, and she kept silence, comforting herself with timid visions of a far distant future.
Suddenly the expression of her face changed from utter disgust into a bitter and proud smile.
She thought, in her bitterand painful resentment: 'If he wants me to go, go I will.
For a moment Elizabeth felt as if some one had struck her a sudden blow, because what lay under those words was the unspoken “No,” which is the most bitter thing the heart of a woman can ever hear.
Now nothing was left but the intense and bitterrealisation that he was no more to her than any other man who passed her on the road.
She sleeps, monsieur, in the white sands of Ismailia, beside the bitter lake.
After Johnnie was gone, Buckheath chewed for some time the bitter cud of chagrin.
Day work was promised later, but the bitter winter wore away, and still the little captives crept over the bridge in the twilight and slunk shivering home at dawn.
Of course this is au fond, a bitter disappointment to a man of my temperament, especially after all the praise my work got before the Exhibition.
After a while he rose up with a most bitter cry, and ran down the green slope and over the water, and hither and thither amongst the bushes like one mad, till he became so weary that he might scarce go or stand for weariness.
Long and bitter was the battle, and the Burgers were fierce without head-strong folly, and the Wheat-wearers deemed that if they blenched now, they had something worse than death to look to.
And that will make them bitter and fierce, till their grief has been slaked by the blood of men.
Well that night could we two understand What bitter grief was in their ceaseless cry.
Makes me hang my head and tremble lest the bitter truth be told.
Fall the shot-clipped leaves about us Like the summer rain; Charge the bitter foes to rout us Ever and again.
Vaisampayana continued, 'Dhananjaya, the son of Kunti, heard those accents of the Brahmana weeping in bitter grief.
Listen to me, O king, as I narrate to you all that Bhadra said with bitter tears trickling down her cheeks.
A hole in the roof is intended for a chimney; but its draught is so bad, that the tent is almost always filled with a cloud of bitter smoke,--so thick as to render objects invisible.
How many similar misconceptions might be recorded of the Buffons, and other closet philosophers--urged, too, with the mostbitter zeal!
The marshes and bitter lakes above mentioned are the produce of numerous streams, which have their rise in the Great Cordillera of the Andes, and run eastward across the Pampas.
But I doubt if he foresaw how bitter it was to be.
The elect did suffer all through the centuries of intolerance, until the rise of the Reformation and the spreading abroad of God's Word broke the power of ecclesiasticism, thus shortening the days of bitter tribulation.
Still she experienced a sort of bitter consolation in the thought that Franz of Gerolstein was no longer ignorant of her passionate devotion, and that, in order to save him from poison, she risked her own life.
Acquainted as he was from a long and bitter experience with that tyrant whelp, that tiger cub, how is it he did not take warning from the double sense that the King's words carried!
I now know the cause of that bitter animosity, Monsieur Estienne.
Until now I had, at least, found some bitter comfort in the word--Impossible.
The latter proceeded with a mournful and bitter tone: "The orders of Ignatius Loyola were followed.
You make the drink so frightfully bitter that I postpone all I can the hour of gulping it down.
Let us not blame these unhappy people; they are what the monks have made them," answered the unknown with a bitter and desolate smile.
Hooker's partisans, and was made the subject of attacks so bitterthat virulence degenerated into puerility.
Such accidents increased her early-formed asperity of thought; chilled the gushing flood of her young affections; and sharpened, with a relentless edge, her bitter and caustic hatred to a society she deemed at once insolent and worthless.
The forlorn and dependent girl could not, indeed, fail to meet with many bitter proofs that her situation was not forgotten by a world in which prosperity and station are the cardinal virtues.
The future may be wrong or right, The present is distinctly wrong, For life and love have lost delight, And bitter even is our song; And year by year grey doubt grows strong, And death is all that seems to dree.
Defeat is bitter when it comes swiftly and conclusively, but when defeat falls by inches like the fatal pendulum in the pit, the agony is a little out of reach of words to define.
We may be sure, too, that he received from the holy fellowship comfort and strength, which helped him in passing through the bitter hours that followed.
There are bitter cups, but the bitterness is sweetened.
In his great sorrow he wished to have his best friends near him, that he might lean on them, and draw from their love a little strength for his hour of bitter need.
How sweet and patient she must have been as she moved about at her tasks, in order that no harsh or bitter thought or feeling might ever cast a shadow upon the holy life which had been intrusted to her for training and moulding.
We know at least that, in the bitter experience of denial, with its solemn repenting, Peter lost his weakness.
