This letter was communicated to Richelieu, whose exasperation exceeded all bounds; and it is consequently almost needless to add that it only served to embitter the position of the persecuted exile.
A retort which only served to embitter the indignation of the minister, who at once perceived that, in order to save himself from ruin, he must forthwith possess himself of the ear of the King, and strike a decisive blow.
The discussion could, indeed, serve no purpose, save to embitter the quarrel.
Twas good of him, wasn't it, to give up running for Mayor, so as not to embitter Gulmore against you?
He endeavoured to embitter the mind of Charles IX.
Though these submissions were not without good results, yet they served only to embitter still more the minds of a large body of the Jansenist party, and to strengthen them in their opposition to the Bull, /Unigenitus/.
Such a step served, however, to embitter feelings on both sides, and to arouse the queen-mother to make one final effort for the destruction of her Huguenot opponents.
My blood was hot and I wanted to be a soldier, but unluckily I fell on times of peace, my promotion would have been very slow, and in order not to embitter my uncle's last years, I renewed my studies and turned to the Church.
Butler on this occasion (chiefly from the warm affection which he had felt towards the last master) continued to embitter his relations with that gentleman during the remainder of his stay at Harrow.
She asked herself what right she had to embitter disappointment by unkindness, or to avenge insult by disdain.
It will embitterand degrade our politics, and dislocate our Parliamentary institutions.
Every successive defeat of that policy tends toembitter feeling in America.
Hard as it was, however, Sir Claude had never shown to greater advantage than in the gallant generous sociable way he carried it off: a way that drew from Mrs. Wix a hundred expressions of relief at his not having suffered it to embitter him.
The outbreak of hostilities often tends to embitter the strife of parties.
They have grown up with my growth--have shared in whatever strength I have; and, while they embitter my own thoughts and happiness, I dread that they will fling their shadow upon yours!
She believed that, no matter where she might go nor how blamelessly she might live, the fact that she had been sentenced to a woman's reformatory would crop up like the ugly memory of a horrid dream to embitter her existence.
And so Sheila Macklin waited from hour to hour, from day to day, dully and in a brooding spirit, for release from a situation which must in time embitter her whole nature.
Be sure, He'll not embitter fortune to the vanquished; An ancient courtesy of war will never Be ta'en away by him; he would have been Rather the first to have invented it.
I picked it up, I do not remember where or when, in Venice; and as it is a collection of pieces all meant to embitter the spirit against Austria, it had doubtless not been brought into the city with the connivance of the police.
And are you really," returned the other, "going to embitter your happiness with such thoughts?
He must live in constant fear of exposure; this dread will embitter every enjoyment, and make him the most miserable of men.
Your presence makes me tremble: I fear lest it should inspire her with sentiments which may embitter the remainder of her life, or encourage her to cherish hopes in her situation unjustifiable and futile.
Once more his old feud with Zwinglianism was to break out and embitter his days.
Nevertheless during the ensuing controversies he was regarded as a traitor by the stricter Lutherans and treated with a scorn that did much to embitter his last years.
If a woman whom you love, could break with you because you are unwilling to embitter the last years of your father's life, that woman, I say, was never worthy of you.
Certainly it will be but a brief enjoyment, but all the more firmly will I grasp it and notembitter it by weakness and absorbing self-pity.
Some difference however must be made, between lovers who have never married, and lovers who, having made the experiment, find it possible that a drop of gall may now and then embitter the cup of honey.
Sanguine blockhead, thus everlastingly toembitter my own cup of sorrow!
Reap the fruits of thy crime in quiet, my presence shall no longer embitter thy enjoyment--but, surely, this was not acting like a brother.
Is then your husband's fate not hard enough, That you embitter it by such reproaches?
Party spirit had begun to embitter the politics of the State, and the growing minority of Republicans was hotly arrayed against the still predominant Federalists.
He was ten times reelected, and, such faith had the people in him, several times after his party was a minority in the State, although the acrimony of party strife had begun to embitter its politics.
It would almost seem as if heaven wished to embitterthe sad pleasures it still left you.
The “patriotic” majority had taken care not to embitter the debates by introducing questions ecclesiastical into them; but now a defence was called for.
The President could not say these things in public because they tended, when coming from a man in public place, toembitter people.
The war emancipated the Southern negroes and then politics came to embitter the question.
I considered as the happiest period of my life--those delightful days were to embitter all my future ones.
Let me hasten to remove the temptation, that would destroy my innocence, and embitter my life with the consciousness of irremediable guilt, while I have strength to reject it.
I looked forward eagerly to this moment--why do you embitter for both of us the precious minutes?
Without flattery, I am very well pleased with you and I hope that we shall not embitter each other's lives in this house.
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