1 The bitter weather had driven every one indoors and Ethan had the long rural street to himself.
2 His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
3 Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words.
4 She was certain that some romantic sorrow had blighted his life and made him hard and bitter, and she felt that what he needed was the love of a good woman.
5 Already soldiers and civilians alike were feeling the pinch, and the muttering against him and his fellow speculators was bitter.
6 Vicksburg had fallen, fallen after a long and bitter siege, and practically all the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans was in the hands of the Yankees.
7 Her heart sank with bitter disappointment.
8 Against no one was feeling more bitter than against Rhett Butler.
9 In other days, Scarlett would have been bitter about her shabby dresses and patched shoes but now she did not care, for the one person who mattered was not there to see her.
10 There was nothing to do but invite him to stay, although Aunt Pitty knew how the doctor and Mrs. Meade felt about him and how bitter Fanny was against any man not in uniform.
11 Gulping down the bitter brew of parched corn and dried sweet potatoes that passed for coffee, she went out to join the girls.
12 Without sugar or cream it was bitter as gall, for the sorghum used for "long sweetening" did little to improve the taste.
13 She could--and did--shout them down with bitter sarcasm but before Melanie's unselfishness she was helpless, helpless and resentful.
14 All three wore home-dyed mourning, all were worn, sad, worried, all bitter with a bitterness that did not sulk or complain but, nevertheless, peered out from behind their smiles and their words of welcome.
15 There went the tax money and part of the money which was to see them through this bitter winter.