According to the most rational account, he defeated, in twelve successive battles, the Angles of the North, and the Saxons of the West; but the declining age of the hero was imbittered by popular ingratitude and domestic misfortunes.
His wife and infant son were detained by the Romans in ignominious captivity; and this domestic misfortune tarnished the glories of Leovigild, and imbittered the last moments of his life.
This irreconcilable difference of religion was a perpetual source of jealousy and hatred; and the reproach of Barbarian was imbittered by the more odious epithet of Heretic.
In the four western counties of Pennsylvania a prejudice, fostered and imbittered by the artifice of men who labored for an ascendency over the will of others by the guidance of their passions, produced symptoms of riot and violence.
I showed my self much displeased at him for so doing, expressing my resentment in imbittered words for so great a Crime.
The imbittered words carried no sting to the painter’s breast.
I thank thee that I have been saved from a crime which would have imbittered all my life.
It had become evident that Mara was either engaged to Bodine or soon would be, and the thought imbittered and hardened his nature.
The mind grows by what it feeds upon, and Mrs. Hunter's spirit had become so imbittered by dwelling upon her woes and losses that she was incapable of thinking or speaking of much else.
The blow was instantly revenged by the faithful Goths: they transported their dying monarch seven miles beyond the scene of his disgrace; and his last moments were not imbittered by the presence of an enemy.
The governor of Trebizond succeeded in his attempt to surprise the person of Theodora: the queen of Jerusalem and her two children were sent to Constantinople, and their loss imbittered the tedious solitude of banishment.
His later years were imbittered by the destruction of his Villa Mergellina during the occupation of Naples by the imperial troops under the Prince of Orange.
It is the revolt of the will against unnatural restrictions, the reassertion of natural liberty, emboldened by the study of classical literature, imbittered by long centuries of ecclesiastical oppression.
The country was full of disappointed, imbittered imperialists, and of angry and revengeful royalists.
Time, far from softening, imbitteredhim the more against his son.
The commendation of superiors and the applause of the multitude are often imbittered to the conqueror by the envy of rivals and the malice of foes: but the "Well done, good and faithful servant!
Let them remember the toils of the brick-kiln, the voice of the oppressor, the scourge of the task-master, and all the burdens which there imbittered their lives.
When the news of Gian Galeazzo's death reached the French camp, it spread terror and imbittered the mistrust which was already springing up between the frank cavaliers and the plausible Italians with whom they had to deal.
The last days of Nicholas had been imbittered by the fall of Constantinople and the imminent peril which threatened Europe from the Turks.
The deeply rooted jealousies of Roman and feudal centers, the recent partisanship of Papal and Imperial principles, imbittered this strife.
It appears as if they were specially punished for having become Christians, and there is no doubt that their conversion imbittered the emperor's mind against the Christian missionaries and their religion.
The invasion of Wali Khan furtherimbittered the relations between the Chinese and their subjects; and a succession of governors bore heavily on the Mohammedans.
But defeats at the hands of the Khitans and Tibetans imbittered his life and diminished his authority.
No jealous dread of another man's succeeding where he had failed imbittered the clergyman's placid relations with the woman whom he loved.
Even the people Allan has let the cottage to are people whose lives are imbittered by a household misery which it is my misfortune to have found out!
A mournful silence, interrupted by tears and groans, declared the sad perplexity of the Barbarians; and their aged chief lamented in pathetic language, that his private loss was now imbittered by a sense of public calamity.
They died in torments, and their torments were imbittered by insult and derision.
Her disappointment and grief were imbitteredby the anxiety of maternal tenderness.
From their mutual reproaches, as well as from the story of this dark transaction, it may justly be inferred, that the late persecution had imbittered the zeal, without reforming the manners, of the African Christians.
He again wept the instability of human greatness; and his grief was imbittered by the hostile progress of the Turkmans, whom he had introduced into the heart of his Persian kingdom.
But their misfortunes had been imbittered by the triumph of the Fatimites, the real or spurious progeny of Ali.
This important conquest had been achieved by the concord of the East and West; but their recent amity was soon imbittered by the mutual complaints of jealousy and pride.
The difference of the Greek and Latin habits imbittered the schism.
Any violation by word or deed of the secrecy of the harem is an unpardonable offence among the Turkish nations; [31] and the political quarrel of the two monarchs was imbittered by private and personal resentment.
In his old age Dietrich, weary of life and imbittered by its many trials, ceased to take pleasure in anything except the chase.
He became the object of those affectionate feelings, which, finding formerly no object on which to expand themselves, had increased the gloom of the castle, andimbittered the solitude of its mistress.
Two circumstances only had imbittered their union, which was otherwise as happy as mutual affection could render it.
But, on the other hand, this new crime imbittered two able men against the Union, and put Grotait in immediate peril.
This information took Coventry quite by surprise, and imbittered his hatred of Little.
And this suggests a brief reference to the fact that, as a very effective agent entering into the imbittered conflicts of the time and scene, we are to take into the account some strong religious animosities.
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