| With the divorce of her parents, the life of Kimberly was going to have a differently bitterer taste. |
| Macallan has no bitterer enemy living than Miserrimus Dexter. |
| Bitter as spurge was that old story of hers now, and bitterer still the only moral lesson it now appeared to her to have. |
| But today a repentance had come which was of a bitterer flavor, and a threatening Providence urged him to a kind of propitiation which was not simply a doctrinal transaction. |
| It would be oversweet at first, and bitterer than wormwood afterwards, as our former civility was. |
| No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. |
