Now the willows begin to mark its course, then elms and oaks and walnuts with little thickets of panicled dogwood and wild plum, where the wild grape and the bittersweet display their fruit and the wild duck sometimes makes her nest.
Down the bank, the bittersweet sends trailing arms jeweled with orange-colored pods just opening to display the scarlet arils within.
On the wire fence the bittersweet hangs and reaches from thence to the top of the low hawthorne, seeking the strength of the sun for the ripening of its pods, which slowly change from green to yellow as the month advances.
Both ranch boys could tell that the punchers must be driving the stock steadily ahead of them now, and in all probability into the gaping jaws of the big ravine known throughout that section as Bittersweet Coulie.
Finally he saw Adrian beckon the rustler, and head him toward where Billie had the three ponies belonging to the prisoners of Bittersweet Coulie trailing along after him.
There were four of the rustlers in camp at Bittersweet Coulie; and only three of us boys, but we took them by surprise, made them prisoners, and here you see the missing herd, with only one steer lacking.
We found them in camp at the mouth of Bittersweet Coulie, up which they had chased the herd, where they could change the brands in the morning, and drive the lot away to one of the Walker ranches.
The other species--the Woody Nightshade or Bittersweet (S.
She strung the corn on fine cotton cord putting a rose seed pod between each grain, then used the bittersweet berries to terminate the blunt ends of the branches, and climb up the trunk.
She popped the corn at night and the following day made a trip up the ravine, where she gathered all the bittersweet berries, swamp holly, and wild rose seed heads she could find.
I just believe you want Jack Bittersweet yourself, and I’m sure you are welcome to him, for aught I care!
Well, I am sorry for Jack Bittersweet when I am gone; a lifetime of remorse and—and Frances is not a pleasant thing to look forward to!
By the way, I suppose Jack Bittersweet will teach you to ride?
He says that Jack Bittersweet asked him confidentially the other day if being intellectual made a woman less loveable.
By the way, I hear that she has quarreled with Jack Bittersweet again.
I—oh, I’ll get even with Effie Bittersweet if it ruins my complexion and takes me all the rest of my natural life to do it!
I verily believe she could make Jack Bittersweet do anything she wanted, whether he liked or not!
Well, you may just tell Jack Bittersweet that I shall keep on being nice to him as long as I choose—and he might know me well enough by this time to be sure that I shall keep my word!
Why—er—yes, I heard that Effie Bittersweet is on the verge of nervous prostration.
I saw them coming up the street a minute or two ago and all I’ve got to say is, that if Jack Bittersweet thinks he can make me jealous by parading up and down with a made-up thing like Frances, he is very much mistaken!
Girls, I heard to-day that Jack Bittersweet is thinking of throwing up his partnership, and emigrating to Australia.
Nor is this all the witchery of this bittersweet thorn.
But the young of our bittersweet membracis are not thus fickle, the entire life of the insect being spent on the plant.
Entwining the corner post of the piazza, and extending for some distance along the eaves, a luxuriant vine of bittersweet had made itself at home.
It is no easy thing even for the casual botanist to determine this nice point in a given segment of a bittersweet branch placed in his hand, the position of the chance leaf or leaf scar being his only guide.
This tiny beak we can readily distinguish bent beneath the body of our bittersweet hopper.
With my letter and my bittersweet I have got enough, haven't I, grandpa?
He stopped, and Fleda got out and went to the roadside, where a bittersweet vine had climbed into a young pine tree, and hung it, as it were, with red coral.
A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste.
If she had doubted her power this action set the doubt at rest, as the haughtiest nature she had known confessed it by a bittersweet complaint.
Her eyes still shone upon the ground, and still she prolonged the bittersweet delight at seeing this humiliation of both soul and body by asking the one question whose reply would complete her sad success.
A vine of great beauty in our autumn woods, with its great masses of scarlet berries, is the Celastrus scandens--Climbing Bittersweet or Wax-work.
Defn: A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste.
The intolerable poignancy of existence is bittersweet to his mouth; he craves to incarnate, to interpret its entire human process, always striving to pierce to its center, to capture and express its inexpressible ultimate.
Who, indeed, that has ever lived in the far country does not know that one factor in its fascination was a bittersweet awareness of the folly, the inevitable disaster, of such alien surroundings.
The tiger turned and retreated down the slope, as human eyes felt again the bittersweet flow of mortal life.
Kalus stepped back, acknowledging this, and with a surge of bittersweet emotion, realized that his friend had ascended to the magnificent freedom of a creature of the Wild.
All three were quietly sitting around a small fire, the little rabbit peeling a hot sweet potato, the little chipmunk shelling a smoking hot chestnut and the little crow picking out the nice browned bittersweet berries.
So off he went to get some bittersweet berries, for he likes them much better than sweet potatoes.
But there is nothing very important in this distinction, for the Bittersweet may be found twining in either direction, and in some plants part of a stem may be twining one way and the other in the opposite direction.
He stopped, and Fleda got out and went to the roadside, where a bittersweet vine had climbed into a young pine tree and hung it as it were with red coral.
Elegiac purples of the aster beckon, and the butterfly sleeps long upon the thistle, but she would not go now, in the month of the first bittersweet and the last sweet pea.
The flowers are gone, but they were not brighter than the winter berries and bittersweet that glow around one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bittersweet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
