The uncongeniality of his domestic life embittered his character and his genius.
The foolish, annoying jealousy of Madame de Macumer embittered his life and was responsible for his physical break-down.
And as the wages payable for labor are limited, whereas prices may ascend to any height, the embittered laborer fancied he could better his lot by an appeal to the force which his organization wielded.
He had been a lieutenant in the Continental army, and used rather better language than the country folk ordinarily, which, as well as a cynical wit which agreed with the embittered popular temper, gave him considerable influence.
In the self-despite of an embittered hopeless love he gloated over her despair, even while every nerve thrilled with wildering passion.
Having graced the popular holiday by this involuntary exhibition of himself, Seymour was let go without suffering any further violence, the crowd appearing boisterously jocose rather than embittered in temper.
For Peleg, since he had bought his safety by such a shameful surrender, was embittered above all against those of his former comrades who had been too brave to yield.
This horrible calumny embittered the last days of the dainty chevalier all the more because, as the present Scene will show, he had lost a hope long cherished to which he had made many sacrifices.
He certainly would not," agreed his companion with grim assurance, and they both fell silent again, each engrossed in his own overwhelming, embittered reflections.
For Captain Dove was still enduring much mental as well as physical discomfort in a disguise which he had only been induced to adopt a couple of days before, and after an embittered quarrel with Slyne.
Aeneas Sylvius looks with longing from his native town over to the 'merry' German imperial cities, where life is embittered by no confiscations of land and goods, by no arbitrary officials, and by no political factions.
Whether it was his blood or the plots formed against his life by the barons which embittered and darkened his nature, it is certain that he was equalled in ferocity by none among the princes of his time.
Pulling their bed out from the wall, Joan disentangled from the accumulation of odds and ends beneath it a small suit-case of matting, in which she began to pack her scanty store of belongings: all in embittered silence, ignoring her sister.
With another groan even more soulful than the first he sat down at the table, seized the telephone in a savage grasp, and in prematurely embittered accents detailed a suburban number to the inoffensive central operator.
It killed my father and embittered my mother's few remaining years.
She trebled, she quintupled the dose of aqua distillata embittered with quinine.
I was so disappointed and embittered that I sought consolation in the legends of our beloved country and in Scriptural exegesis.
He was always well inclined that way, but after he realized that David was Vivie he became almost an embittered Suffragist.
You see Serepta has been embittered by the trials that politics, corrupt legislation have brought right onto her.
I can't blame her for bein' embittered agin men and the laws they've made, for it seems as if I never see a human creeter so afflicted as Serepta Pester has been all her life.
The details of this quarrel, the primary cause of that decade of strife which desolated Wales and profoundly influenced the reign and embittered the life of Henry of Bolingbroke, must be reserved for another chapter.
His useless valiancy embittered her against the world of unconvinced opponents.
That Henge had not been embittered by this political antagonism had deeply touched Perior.
He comes forth with all the confidence of a spirit unacquainted with superiors, and all the benevolence of a mind not yet irritated by opposition, alarmed by fraud, or embittered by cruelty.
Queen Eormenburg, whom Ecgfrith had taken to wife in place of Aethelthrith, further embittered the king against the unlucky prelate.
Oh, moment that has ever since embittered my life!
This cruel conduct of Porteous' still more embittered the minds of the populace, who were sufficiently exasperated against him before, and the report of it was soon spread over town and country.
Her last days wereembittered by the breaking out of new contests between her husband and her son.
Her great heart was neither embittered nor wrathful against the dread foe.
The President de Novion reminded her that her brother the civil lieutenant had suspected other persons, and that this suspicion had embittered his last moments.
The last days of Louis were embittered by the disorders in Poland.
The last years of Coloman’s reign were embittered by the ambition of his brother Álmos, who coveted the throne.
The truth is, as written by Sir Francis Hincks[6] fifty years later, "he embittered the party feeling that had been considerably assuaged by Sir Charles Bagot.
Wesley's life among them had been embittered by all kinds of vexations, to a great extent engendered by his endeavouring to enforce High-Church discipline.
As for the people of the world, they are so embittered by my injudicious and too severe expressions against Archbishop Tillotson, and the author of the 'Whole Duty of Man,' that they flee from me as from a viper.
