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Usage examples of embittered.

Above all he could hear the clear war-cry of Miss Airedale and the embittered yells of Mr.

Charles Ward examined a set of his accounts and invoices in the Shepley Library, did it occur to any person--save one embittered youth, perhaps--to make dark comparisons between the large number of Guinea blacks he imported until 1766, and the disturbingly small number for whom he could produce bona fide bills of sale either to slave-dealers at the Great Bridge or to the planters of the Narragansett Country.

Was it at this time that embittered Federalists began whispering that Jefferson and Dolley were conducting an affair?

And the donkeys, embittered by the Change Wars and all too aware that Livers had already been economically unnecessary for at least three generations, would do nothing.

One-armed and embittered, Granpa came home to Wappinger Falls and, like his fellow veterans, tried to remake his life in a different and increasingly hopeless world.

Raskolnikov finds himself is then underlined by the visit to his only friend, the warmhearted, generous, ebullient Razumikhin, who was introduced earlier and obviously serves as a contrast to the introspective, gloomy, embittered Raskolnikov.

Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations.

I spent my last days at Madrid drinking the cup of pleasure which was embittered by the thought of the pain that was to follow.

These men had a blood-feud against the Boers, which was embittered by the fact that they had lost heavily through Boer depredations.

There is no reason why an author should pay for the privilege of a long life by the loss of his copyrights, and that his old age should be embittered by poverty because he cannot have the results of the labor of his vigorous years.

Appalled and embittered, Dubois withdrew into an undistinguished position as a professor of geology at the University of Amsterdam and for the next two decades refused to let anyone examine his precious fossils again.

IV--LARGO E MESTO Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellarage of hell, The Wind-Fiend, the abominable - The Hangman Wind that tortures temper and light - Comes slouching, sullen and obscene, Hard on the skirts of the embittered night.

Petersburg I had a serious attack, and the daily pain and anxiety embittered my existence.

In these days when people write with ballbearings and solid ink, and at the bottom of the lake while swimming, and otherwise miraculously, I am an embittered reactionary scraping away with a wooden pen which I dip after every eighth word.

Though Wu Qichen knew nothing about the Ghost's whereabouts in the city, the scrawny, embittered man gave her some information about the Changs, including the name of the infant with them, Po-Yee, which meant Treasured Child.