Bitter-sweet

Bitter-sweet remembrance came of the days in far-gone time and space, when he had lain half-dead on a battlefield of the middle twentieth century, resigned to personal oblivion.

The Weapon Shops of Isher Van Vogt, A. E. 1951

Bitter-sweet, gooseberries, with thorns like darning needles!

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

Bitter-sweet it was, yet his courage made it more sweet than bitter.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

Bitter-sweet it had been, and long drawn out, but forthwith she must awake to the gray actualities of life.

The Stowaway Girl Louis Tracy 1895

"Bitter-sweet," "giver of pain," "the weaver of fictions," are some expressions of Sappho's preserved by Maximus Tyrius; and Libanius, the rhetorician, refers to Sappho, the Lesbian, as praying "that night might be doubled for her."

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

Did _Rose_ know the Bitter-sweet she was imparting to me, when she gave me, by Stealth as 'twere, the latelie publisht Volume of my Husband's

Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Anne Manning 1843

Bitter-sweet comedy, shuffling between hope and dread, and the yearnings of body and soul.

The Hindu - Front Page 2010

Bitter-sweet 'Sunflower' and 'July' radiate a tenderness that, despite their undoubted quality, was sorely lacking from previous offerings.

The Line Of Best Fit 2010

Walter Schreifels @ Barfly, Cardiff (tomorrow): Bitter-sweet pop from New York via Berlin in the quirky, angsty mould of Bright Eyes.

WalesOnline - Home 2010

Bitter-sweet 'Sunflower' and 'July' radiate a tenderness that, despite their undoubted quality, was sorely lacking from previous offerings.

The Line Of Best Fit 2009