But ill would any reader construe the character of Kenelm, did he think that such a thought increased the bitterness of his sorrow.
In receiving the old appellation, the practical world, with its bitternessand strife, returned to him as at the utterance of a spell.
Slowly, both the bitterness and the understanding of its loss turn the world to virtue.
They had forgotten their bitterness and the touch of awe had made them kin.
Filled with unforgiving bitterness against her mother she had asked God to forgive her, scarcely deeming her fault one to be repented of.
With difficulty Tom suppressed the rising bitterness of contempt and anger in him.
There was no quarrel, but there was a certain bitterness between them.
A pang, a bitterness that lasted for a day or for a year--and the gap would be filled again by some one else.
The first bitterness passed a little, the sullen aching with it.
But there hid below his anger a deep, dull bitterness that tried angrily to raise its head.
And he thought suddenly with an intense bitterness that amazed him--of the husband.
You are harassed in many ways, and you are dreading the bitterness of a greater defeat than today.
She reflected with some bitterness that one danger was receding.
But both bitterness and the sense of failure had been dismissed in the moment when he had, once for all, accepted the situation; and that had been several days before.
I ought, on the contrary, to declare that the bitterness of this mouthful is completely annulled by the delicious sweetness of the others, so that your Majesty shall continue to bestow dainties upon me as before.
Light of my eyes, Keep not within thy heart a bitterness Because I answered thus unto thy words.
And so, at cross purposes, with heart-burnings and some bitterness of spirit, they got through their Sunday tea.
I may say here that the effect of her was most compelling, and I could well understand the bitterness with which the ladies of the Onwards and Upwards Society had gossiped her to rags.
After that first brief study of her I could more easily account for the undercurrents of bitterness I had felt in Red Gap society.
Furthermore it may be safely assumed that the bitterness of the natives is to be ascribed to German tyranny, which culminated, as Norden relates on p.
Nothing is more essential for us Germans, especially in war time, than unity; but this harmony is necessarily endangered by religious bitterness and strife.
In addition to the racial hostility, which had been lashed into bitterness during the spring of 1914, came Germany's morbid conception of national and personal honour.
Footnote 220: Norden has had ample opportunities to learn the story of Belgium, but he and all other Germans writers, in apparently holy innocence, look upon all bitterness against their nation as a cruel injustice.
But against England we wage war with the greatest bitterness and such an awful rage, as only an entire and great people in their holy wrath can feel.
Is there any such folly as to refuse this healing medicine, for the little bitterness which is in it, and then to incur eternal death?
Though you have more grief, and your bitterness doth indite more eloquence, shall God be moved with it?
Will not such a man’s momentary satisfaction make hell more unsatisfying, and add grounds of bitterness to his cup?
A prudent man covereth shame,” but hastiness and bitterness takes the garment off our infirmity, and exposes us to mockery and contempt, Prov.
It allayeth the bitternessof things that cross us, and filleth up the emptiness of things that pretend to please us, it giveth sweetness to the one, and true sweetness to the other.
Indeed, if there were no remedy to be found, it were a happy ignorance to be ignorant of misery, the knowledge and remembrance of it could do nothing but add unto the bitterness of it.
It giveth the most powerful consolation, that not only overcometh the bitterness and taketh out the sting of death, but changeth the nature of it so far as to make it the matter of triumph and gloriation.
How should it mitigate and sweeten the bitterness of mortification?
That is very choice language, gentlemen, "splenetic bitterness of a political sect.
Lindsay; and the Governor was, somehow, shaking hands like a kind and cordial host, and the bitterness was gone from his soul.
It cost her no trouble at all, and about half a minute of time, to charge the atmosphere, so full of sweet peace and rest, with a saturated solution of bitterness and disquiet.
A majesty of space and light enwrapt her, penetrated, as everywhere at Versailles, with memory, with the bitterness and the glory of human things.
How shall I ever think of him without the bitterness of shame?
She concentrated all the denunciatory bitterness of the tongue and pronounced and gloried in the doom of the dynasty, heaping the blame of its destruction upon the head of Meneptah!
The bitterness of the incident was making him more himself.
He could not quite keep the bitterness out of the way in which he said that.
Wished he could wipe away the bitterness of his words that night on the seat at Wivernsea.
Self-blame just then she was very full of; bitterness for not having gone to him in the first instance herself.
Father hasn't a sense of humour," Sandy ventured, striving to keep the bitterness of resentment from his voice.
The first time Sandy entered the crumbling shanty such a wave of bitterness and depression engulfed him that he realized he must either reclaim it or it would triumph over him.
I said with a bitternessthat was lost on the photographer; "is that mine?
I turned my head away in bitterness as I thought of my own folly.
The policy of haste might breed more suspicion and bitterness than the most desultory conduct of the campaign.
But the idea of restoring order occupied but a small place in the minds of the maddened senators, The accumulated bitterness of a year found its outlet in one moment of glorious vengeance.
The restraint under which Attalus had lived during his uncle's guardianship, had given him the sense of impotence that issues in bitterness of temper and reckless suspicion.
As politics raged at this time with a force and bitterness that divided friends and relations, even the sacred mysteries of love were interrupted by the offerings to the stern genius of discord.
Notwithstanding the shortness of their days, the bitterness of their frosts, and the fury of their storms, December and January are merry months.
There was a shade of bitterness in the laugh that accompanied the last words.
The very fact that he loved her still, with a passion that defied all things, added a terrible bitterness to what he had to bear, for it made him despise himself as none would have dared to despise him.
The bitterness of his words and the tone in which they were spoken hurt her, and made her realise for a moment what he was suffering.
There was not one drop of bitterness in that overflowing of her soul's transcendent joy, in that happiness which was so great and perfect that it seemed almost unbearable.
As he paced the floor of his room, the bitterness of his situation slowly sank from the surface, leaving his face calm and almost serene.
She would sacrifice herself for what had been, for the memory of it, for the bitterness of having lost it and of feeling that it could not return.
When I heard of the end of that unfortunate, all my bitterness against her went out of me, and in my heart I set myself to find excuses for her.
Bitterness and disillusion were all that it had brought her.
The intensity of that bitterness made me realize with alarm how it still was with me.
And then I felt again that touch of ecstasy to reflect that it was the bitterness of the resolve that made it worthy, that through its very harshness was it that this path should lead to grace.
And at last the full bitterness of penitence and regret overtook me when I reflected that by my own act I had rendered myself for ever unworthy of the cloister's benign shelter.
He was a man strong enough to see his duty and brave enough to face what to him was the bitterness of death, for well she knew what his mother was to him.
The bitterness of his surrender was past, so, at least, he thought.
And as he read the letter over and over his pity for his friend deepened, for he realised that in his cup of sorrow there had mingled the gall of remorse and the bitterness of hate.
In Shock's work he was mildly interested, but toward all that stood for religion he cherished a feeling of bitterness amounting to hatred.
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.
Tis in thebitterness of personal proof alone, in suffering and in feeling, in erring and in repenting, that experience comes home with conviction, or impresses to any use.
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