| Their pleasures, poor as they were, could not be preserved pure, but were imbittered by petty competitions, and worthless emulation. |
| But you are so imbittered against me now that it would be useless. |
| They died in torments, and their torments were imbittered by insult and derision. |
| And when was ever a mood so out of sorts, a heart so imbittered as not to thaw out and laugh if leb Narr played one of his pranks. |
| She has brooded over these things until she has become morbid and imbittered. |
| But her great disappointment had strangely altered and imbittered her character. |
