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Example sentences for "bitterest"

Lexicographically close words:
bitte; bitted; bitten; bitter; bitterer; bitterish; bitterly; bittern; bitterness; bitternesse
  1. Carpenter was the next to succumb, and on the 1st of December they were doomed to drink their bitterest cup to the dregs.

  2. Oxley, who traversed what is now the cream of the agricultural portion of the state of New South Wales, speaks of the main part of it in terms of the bitterest condemnation.

  3. If they were, many of our bitterest financial struggles would never occur.

  4. Now that his worn-out body lies awaiting burial, The General's personal worth and the worth of his work are frankly confessed even by those who were once his bitterest critics.

  5. Like the Phaedra of Racine, and herein so nobly unlike the Phaedra of Euripides, she is capable of the deepest and bitterest penitence,--incapable of dying with a hideous and homicidal falsehood on her long polluted lips.

  6. The people of the northern English colonies had learned to regard their Canadian neighbors with the bitterest enmity.

  7. The bitterest enemy of the Jews was Agobard's disciple and successor, Bishop Amolo of Lyons.

  8. Saladin was just to the Jews, as indeed towards every one, even his bitterest enemies.

  9. The bitterest pangs of sorrow penetrated his heart at the thought of the sacred ruins.

  10. The objects of the King's bitterest jealousy were young men who formed a society called Les messieurs du Marais because they met every evening at Mme.

  11. Mademoiselle embraced the idea only too ardently, and to it she owed one of the bitterest hours of her existence.

  12. Throughout the darkest day, throughout the bitterest disappointment, she remained serenely unmoved.

  13. That moment for Meriel was the bitterest of all.

  14. His experiences in Paris were to be of the bitterest kind, but of the most vital importance to his future career.

  15. It was this part of his book which caused the bitterest comment at the time of publication.

  16. In his face, which he could plainly distinguish in spite of the darkness, he could read the bitterest enmity.

  17. His liveliest sallies, his bitterest jests, were all reserved for these occasions, so that mirth or anger was forever unstringing the nerves of his competitors, and diminishing their chance of gain.

  18. One of the bitterest feelings I have is that a man so dear to me should live so near to me, and that I should see so little of him.

  19. James Connolly in the Irish Worker said of Partition: "To it Labour should give the bitterest opposition, against it Labour in Ulster should fight even to the death if necessary as our fathers fought before us.

  20. The advent of the Coalition Government, which included some of the bitterest enemies of Irish Nationalism, did not mend matters.

  21. My old friends had been among the bitterest opponents of any proposal to visit the captain and his daughters, only twelve months before; and now he was even admitted in the tabooed hours before twelve.

  22. The Mendicants, who endeavored to discourage this independent popular penitence, incurred the bitterest hostility, which had no scruple in finding expression.

  23. Even during the bitterest and most doubtful portion of the contest, before the pope had been brought back to Constance, the successive steps of the trial received due attention.

  24. Aragon, it was placed in the bitterest antagonism towards the Holy See, and no active persecution is to be looked for.

  25. Yet their name remained, and was long used in Bohemia as a term of the bitterest contempt for those who denied transubstantiation.

  26. Vallandigham, of Ohio, had shown himself, in the National House of Representatives and elsewhere, one of the bitterest and most outspoken of all the men of that class which insisted that "the war was a failure.

  27. I think even the bitterest of our enemies will allow that the Boers who remained faithful to their country to the last were animated with noble principles.

  28. This soul in its bitterest moments shall be, And our days run as swift--and our moments more sweet, With thee at my side, than the world at my feet.

  29. But he knew that King Sweyn Forkbeard was his bitterest enemy, and that there was danger in passing so near to Denmark, and he thought it well to have a large number of battleships in his train in case of need.

  30. But while the wooden stairway was still creaking under his tread, Queen Sigrid called after him in bitterest anger: "Go, then, O proud and stubborn king.

  31. Where do you meet with the bitterest opposition?

  32. The definition of socialism given by its bitterest enemy is, that idlers wish to live on the labor and on the money of others.

  33. Blaine had the warmest friends and the bitterest enemies of any man in the party.

  34. I meet with the bitterest opposition where the people are the most ignorant, where there is the least thought, where there are the fewest books.

  35. To the unregenerate Prometheus Vinctus of a man, it is ever the bitterest aggravation of his wretchedness that he is conscious of Virtue, that he feels himself the victim not of suffering only, but of injustice.

  36. He expressed the bitterest indignation; gloomed all evening, spake no other than surly words.

  37. I know the man who is with her, and cannot help fearing that he is her bitterest enemy--that he is acting in concert with the Baron.

  38. It was another of the guests who was Chater's bitterest enemy.

  39. For the bud it never unfolded, The light it flickered away, And whose is the power to utter The grief of that bitterest day?

  40. The peculiar circumstances attending the marriage caused many calumnies to be uttered and printed respecting Mrs. Jackson, and some of the bitterest quarrels which the general ever had had their origin in them.

  41. Perhaps the bitterest feelings in our life are those which we experience, when boys and girls, at the failures of our friendships and our loves.

  42. The light of our life is darkness, And with sorrow we are not done; For thine is the bitterest mourning, Mourning for an only son!

  43. She turned and faced the man who was her bitterest foe--hers in the person of the man she loved.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bitterest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.