They have continued very good friends, and their wives are almost without the rivalry that usually embitters the wives of partners.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth"
William Dean Howells
They believe that it is a just and good thing to make a man pay with his life, for taking the life of a monkey; because it impedes his coming up and embitters the others.
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost
For he himself, then "suffering the social persecution which embitters any departure from accepted creeds," felt in defiant sympathy with all outcasts.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind