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  • "Well," says the wife, getting bitther at last, "all I can say is, it isn't the first sheep's head was dhressed in it."

    Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Various

  • The Misses Purcell faced the world and its somewhat excessive interest in them with the intrepid _esprit de corps_ of a square of British infantry, but among themselves they fought, as the coachman was wont to say -- and no one knew better than the coachman -- "both bitther an regular, like man and wife!"

    All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903

  • 'An' th 'Germans is with him to th' bitther end, 'he says.

    Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Well, as I was sayin ', wan explorer starts off in a fur suit an' has th 'time iv his life an' th 'other explorer stays at home an' suffers th 'crool hardships an' bitther disapp'intments iv life in Brooklyn.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Bitther cowld it was, aw, bitther cowld, and the b'ys droppin 'down, droppin', droppin ', droppin', wid the Roosian bullets in thim!

    The Lane That Had No Turning, Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Bitther cowld it was, aw, bitther cowld, and the b'ys droppin 'down, droppin', droppin ', droppin', wid the Roosian bullets in thim!

    The Lane That Had No Turning, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Bitther cowld it was, aw, bitther cowld, and the b'ys droppin 'down, droppin', droppin ', droppin', wid the Roosian bullets in thim!

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "Very good, -- devil a bitther joke ever I had," says his Riv'rence.

    Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • My bitther curse be upon the man that invinted the same Boord!

    Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • Wan for the Union, an 'wan for the League, an' both o 'thim bitther as sut.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

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