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Definition of Bitterest
1. bitter [adj] - See also: bitter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bitterest
Literary usage of Bitterest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"THE Bitterest DREGS. [Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, written by Himself.
1882.] IF at any one time in my life, more than another, I was made to drink ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"t lirai enemies, nnd, in concert with your bitterest foes, to ruin men who arc
still moro your natural connections. Nay that is n«t just ; hut rather, ..."
3. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
THERE are no authors I am more pleased with than those who show human ..."
4. The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston: Comprising "Song-tide," "All by Philip Bourke Marston, Louise Chandler Moulton (1892)
"... To know this last and bitterest thing, O son ! " I bowed my face, and said : "
Thy will be done ;' And then he brought me where, beneath warm skies, ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... the painfulness of being suddenly thrust from "the still air of delightful
studies" into the bitterest and sternest controversy of the age—she bore ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"'TU what our " President " Monroe Has called " the era of good feeling ; " The
Highlander, the bitterest foe To modern laws, has felt their blow, ..."
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