From the time of the Parnell divorce case onwards, the Irish question had brought to Liberals nothing but embarrassment and embitterment.
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn
As long as we foster these things in our private life, so long will they lead in our public life to the embitterment of nation against nation.
"The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife"
Edward Carpenter
The power of Great Britain would of course have prevailed, even against the whole Dutch-speaking population of South Africa; but it would have prevailed only after much bloodshed, and at the cost of an intense embitterment of feeling, which would have destroyed the prospects of the peace and welfare of the two Colonies for many years to come.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce