I stood in silence like a slave before her 260 That I might taste the wormwood and the gall, And satiate this self-accusing heart With bitterer agonies than death can give.
Villain, thou shalt drink it, Or die a bitterer death.
For thee doth wait Anguish and shame yet bitterer than befell Presumptuous Laocoon.
I know not A bitterer pang than this for hapless men!
I cannot bear to see my fathers' town In flames, my kindred in disastrous strife Perishing: bitterer sorrow is there none!
Nothing makes deeper and bitterer antagonisms than differences in religious forms, and people who have not been born into them are usually the most passionate in adherence to them, so that cleft did not entirely coincide with the former.
There is nothing bitterer than the too late tears for wrongs done to those who are gone beyond the reach of our penitence.
Even in death it is bittererthan death to give him up.
The bitterer your own heart is about that drunken cook and that idle husband who will do nothing to assist you, the sweeter you must smile.
There had been no Goose with a bitterer tongue than Crowdy; but now in these days a spirit of quiescence had fallen on him; and though he spoke as often as ever, he did not wield so deadly a tomahawk.
If he had the power we wad be hame again the morn; but he hasna the power, and wherefore should we make his cup bitterer wi' putting our calamity before him and saying it's his blame?
There are bitterer things in this world than even grief.
Tell them, that if they have suffered pain for me, they never can know what agony, bitterer than death, I have endured within this desolate house.
Strange that the hard old man should have held to that dream so stubbornly and so long, striving to gain for it, hoarding to enrich it, growing bitterer for its long coming, year by year.
A moment of joy is a drop of honey on the tongue; a moment of pain is bitterer than any essence that Ignatius ever distilled from his evil bean.
What saw I bitterer to be borne in all the city spilt?
My foes increase, thy cruelty makes absence bitterer still, But naught can shake my constancy, and none can do me ill.
Yes, my death, for should I perish, it were comfort but to think Thou couldst have henceforth on earth no blacker, bitterer cup to drink!
People seek and find matter in everything to picture to themselves the lot of the place in which they live as bitterer than that of any other country.
To your mother and me this parting will be bitterer than death, because you will live, and we will never hear your voices nor see you more in this world.
She paid no heed to the taunts and broad allusions of her neighbour, whose heart was perhaps the bitterer from the recent failure of her own last effort at husband-catching.
It were bitterer than death to me if ever I did that which is good, without God.
Bitterer to the soul that loveth Far from her Beloved to dwell, Than the pit of doom to sinners-- An abyss there is profounder Than the depths of hell.
Iroldo then covered his face and head, not daring to see her depart for the house of Prasildo; and Tisbina, with pangs bitterer than death, left him in solitude.
No answer, apparently, was given to this inquiry, for it was renewed withbitterer tones than before.
He will now be fierce against his benefactor (who, though a bad king, was tender to his friends), and bitterer against his faith than if he had never been either a courtier or a bigot.
I knew that thou wouldst not let me go on hoping if hope meant but a bitterer awaking.
Cale's voice grew insistent, for the roar of the city was subdued at one and two in the morning: "You are doing him a bitterer wrong than your mother before you.
He felt that such was the case, and his sensations were only the bitterer that it should be so.
Then they kissed each other again, like two children; Letty's tears wet his face, and he felt them bitterer than if they had been his own.
Yonder blow was almost bitterer than flesh can bear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bitterer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
