gall and wormwood

The thing had turned to so much gall and wormwood before my very eyes.

North's hand of a lifetime has turned to gall and wormwood.

This was gall and wormwood to Emily, who felt that she had no defence against it.

Your palate is unused yet to gall and wormwood.

Meanwhile water diviners, well diggers and drillers add gall and wormwood to the situation.

I have summoned you here to witness it, because I know it will be gall and wormwood to you!

To be negotiated with, and not notice; the Alka-Seltzer turned to gall and wormwood in Guy's stomach.

It would be inhumanity to refuse, as there was no other who could take the place, but it was gall and wormwood to his sensitive nature.

In his appearance, speech, and manners, he bore broad marks of his origin, which were gall and wormwood to my uncle Adam.

Daav ate sparingly of a meal composed chiefly of gall and wormwood, accompanied by fine vintage vinegar.

It is gall and wormwood for a leader already politically crippled by Britain's commitment in Iraq to find himself now also engaged in a confrontation with Iran.

Oakes was baffled, and his knowledge of Oakes told him that the sensation of being baffled was gall and wormwood to that high-spirited young man.

Joe Root should have been caught at second slip, and England went off for a lunch that, whatever was on the menu, would have tasted of gall and wormwood and smelt of fear.

All this was gall and wormwood to the dreaming librarian or brooding recluse, and made him say, 'If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom, it would be better for the people a hundredfold.

To the Sports Editor: As usual, coverage of Boston Red Sox victories, no matter how impressive and unexpected, is kept to a bare minimum by New York sportswriters and every word offered up with gall and wormwood.

In the dream she hadn't looked like Jo at all, she'd looked like some other woman, maybe like the one in the Book of Proverbs, the strange woman whose lips were as honey but whose heart was full of gall and wormwood.

Exhausted by emotion, my language was more subdued than it generally was when it developed that sad theme; and mindful of Helen's warnings against the indulgence of resentment, I infused into the narrative far less of gall and wormwood than ordinary.

Chase did feel obliged to add that although it is gall and wormwood to me to give these rebels up, we must demonstrate to the world that for the sake of inflicting just punishment on rebels, we will never commit even a ... technical wrong against neutrals.

Indeed the whole house-front was spruce and trim, and so freshened up throughout, that if there yet remained at large any of the rioters who had been concerned in the attack upon it, the sight of the old, goodly, prosperous dwelling, so revived, must have been to them as gall and wormwood.

The Claybodys, if they defeated John Macnab, would be famous; ridiculous, if they were beaten; and, while the latter fate might be taken with good humour by the Bandicotts, it would be gall and wormwood to a young gentleman with strong notions on the rights and dignities of landed property.