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  • * 'Embittered' Charles Clarke was trounced and humiliated by John Prescott.

    Paul Flynn - Read My Day 2008

  • * 'Embittered' Charles Clarke was trounced and humiliated by John Prescott.

    Paul Flynn - Read My Day 2008

  • * 'Embittered' Charles Clarke was trounced and humiliated by John Prescott.

    Paul Flynn - Read My Day 2008

  • Embittered by recent experience, Jesup resorted to treachery: inviting parlays with militant chiefs, then seizing them and threatening death to ensure the surrender of their followers.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Embittered, Jesup resorted to aggressive offensive operations and treachery, securing 850 prisoners as well as an ignominious historical legacy.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Embittered by a slight to his honor, Ajax -- the title character in a 2,500-year-old Greek tragedy by Sophocles -- slays a field's worth of livestock, deliriously mistaking the animals for his enemies.

    Theater of War at Woolly Mammoth: A fighting chance to grasp battle's aftermath Nelson Pressley 2010

  • Embittered ex-Confederates distrusted Yankee publishers and wanted Dixie schoolchildren to have their own textbooks — so southern states established textbook adoption processes to make sure anti-Confederate books stayed out of their schools.

    The rich irony in Virginia’s history textbook error Valerie Strauss 2010

  • City's lawyers are taking action to remove a spoof account, Simple_as_Mike, that has appeared on Twitter, with the profile 'Embittered Manchester City legend and enemy of statistics & facts.'

    Mike Summerbee unrepentant in accusing Sky of Manchester United bias 2011

  • Embittered by this refusal, Roosevelt stepped up his vocal criticisms of Wilson 's hapless administration -- and complained of unfair treatment of America 's black soldiers.

    Ken Blackwell: Honoring All our WWI Heroes Ken Blackwell 2011

  • Embittered by this refusal, Roosevelt stepped up his vocal criticisms of Wilson 's hapless administration -- and complained of unfair treatment of America 's black soldiers.

    Ken Blackwell: Honoring All our WWI Heroes Ken Blackwell 2011

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