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Chesterton vividly and to write the word bitterness.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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A good day on the lake can give you a lifetime of memories whereas obsessively pursuing and never attaining the record will leave you in bitterness.
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Even recognizing it can, rather than opening your eyes, smother you in bitterness.
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A good day on the lake can give you a lifetime of memories whereas obsessively pursuing and never attaining the record will leave you in bitterness.
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Ward stood up and let the rope trail forgotten from his hands while he told Buck Olney all the things he had brooded over in bitterness.
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No Christian could ever say that other Christians turned to God out of "bitterness."
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4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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(I heard the men's footsteps begin to go downstairs.) "Now you will explain, if you please --" she began, with a furious kind of bitterness.
Oddsfish! Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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"And all the world knows that I did it," he said with a vehement kind of bitterness.
Oddsfish! Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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I see his American biographer has accused me of 'bitterness.'
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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