Few know the weight of sin. When the guilt thereof takes hold of the conscience, it commands homewards all the faculties of the soul. No man can go out or off now: now he is wind-bound, or, as Paul says, "caught:" now he is made to possess bitter days, bitter nights, bitter hours, bitter thoughts; nor can he shift them, for his sin is ever before him. As David said, "For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me,"--in my eye, and sticketh fast in every one of my thoughts; Psalm li.英文原著 · 《The Pharisee And The Publican》
And the bittern sound his drum. Goldsmith (D. 44) calls the bird "the hollow-sounding bittern;" and in his Animated Nature, he says that of all the notes of waterfowl "there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern."英文原著 · 《The Lady of the Lake》
How bitter, bitter hard it was, let some other mother say! She knelt down, and, crawling to his feet, touched the sole of one of his sandals with her lips, yellow though it was with the dust of the street--and touched it again and again; and her very soul was in the kisses. He stirred, and tossed his hand. They moved back, but heard him mutter in his dream,
"Mother! Amrah! Where is--"
He fell off into the deep sleep. Tirzah stared wistfully. The mother put her face in the dust, struggling to suppress a sob so deep and strong it seemed her heart was bursting.英文原著 · 《Ben-Hur》
No doubt but I spoke bitter and sharp. My heart was bitter. I blamed myself and the girl and hated both of us: her for the vile crew that she was come of, myself for my wanton folly to have stuck my head in such a byke of wasps.英文原著 · 《Catriona》
oh, how very still it was--how bitter, bitter cold! If Annie Bouman had only stayed home instead of going to Amsterdam, it wouldn't be so lonely. How cold her feet were growing! Was it the moaning that made her feel as if she were floating in the air?英文原著 · 《Hans Brinker》
'Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be:
Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die.英文原著 · 《Idylls of the King》
*Into broken remnants* *Smile like you mean it* *And let yourself let go* *'Cause it's all in the hands* *Of a bitter, bitter man* *Say good-bye* *To the world you thought you lived in* *To the world you thought you lived in*美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
And to go with it, bitter chocolate drops to represent the'bitter tears of our sad german heroine.美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》
It's absinthe, cloves, orange bitters hand-muddled in a mason jar.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》