Instead of allowing these things to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. From LearnThat.org. [Bernard Baruch (1870-1965).]
Never inactive, the latter sought to aggravate and embitter. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Foreign mercenaries were called in, to embitter the quarrel. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Outside opposition cannot embitter, for it cannot touch the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
It is such things as this that embitter the lives of schoolgirls. From Wordnik.com. [Different Girls] Reference
It won't do to embitter an animal any more than it will a person. From Wordnik.com. [Baldy of Nome] Reference
One unsatisfied desire will embitter all the most coveted possessions. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Women of Olden Time] Reference
A religious controversy helped to embitter the dispute between James and. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Their goal and the goal of all like them is to divide and embitter people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2001] Reference
I was a prisoner, and that was sufficient to embitter a mind naturally active. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Life is necessarily full of sorrows; do not let us embitter it unnecessarily. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
And I will embitter thy life, and poison it, first: and then I will take it away. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
Yes, changes must take place; but nothing, I hope, to embitter present prospects. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
He helped to embitter Rousseau against Hume by the mock letter from Frederick the. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
Its effect was to so embitter Palmer that he set about getting rid of Jake at once. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
South African policy which shall tend to reconcile and unite, not embitter and sever. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
This seemed to embitter both men against Barnes and some threats were made against him. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a Pioneer] Reference
No carking doubts of the truth and purity of her love would ever embitter his happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
We cannot -- we don't want evil to embitter us and make us angry and turn our hearts cold and hard. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2001] Reference
They were estranged, and circumstances to embitter the sad state of affairs seemed to daily multiply. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn] Reference
I will not let what has happened to me during this process embitter me or shape the balance of my life. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2002] Reference
How destitute are they of all those Sensations which sweeten as well as embitter our probationary State!. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 5 August 1776] Reference
Or shall I basely betray that love which is proffered me, and embitter fair Noradin's future cup of life?. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Forrest became morbid, and his domestic infelicities that followed served to still further embitter his life. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
He must remain confident and never let the years of waiting sour or embitter him or the nature of public life. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
But it isn't naive to suggest that Israel's massive attacks on Lebanon and Gaza will embitter a new generation. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Loeb: War at Home: The Seattle Shootings] Reference
You see, signor, he has denied his nationality, and that of itself will embitter the national feeling against him. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
It is a shame that one who sweetens his drink with the gifts of the bee, should embitter God's gift Reason with vice. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference
His life was short and full of storm and stress, although he never allowed his personal sufferings to embitter his spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
You are a sweeter, better woman than before you loved, unless you made the mistake of small natures and let it embitter you. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
It tends to embitter and divide the community into warring classes and thus weakens the unity and power of our national life. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Long before this the Irish political agitator had set himself to embitter the relations existing between landlord and tenant. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
It gives the first tone to our desires, and furnishes ingredients that will either sweeten or embitter the whole cup of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
We would not embitter the life of Mr. GREELEY, at present, by any farther revelations, and therefore we let the subject drop. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870] Reference
"Yes, I know," I said unthinkingly; "but a man like Mr. Winthrop is foolish to let a woman like Mr.. Le Grande embitter his life.". From Wordnik.com. [Medoline Selwyn's Work] Reference
We disagree about some point of doctrine or ritual, and allow the disagreement to embitter our feelings, and to shut out our sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
Meanwhile, such a move would surely embitter a large chunk of the general electorate, including those especially valuable swing voters. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Clinton Campaign May Try To Peel Away Obama's Pledged Delegates] Reference
To such an extent did they embitter my existence, that I voluntarily placed myself under the treatment of an expert in mental pathology. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Thus we had ample opportunity for observation and to embitter our souls with knowledge of the interior life of English Dothegirls Halls. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
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