In Europe, it was known by various names during the nineteenth century when it was used as a medicine; these names included bitter ash, bitterwood, mountain damson and stave-wood.
Mr. Kuettel's three batches, which range from an aperitif-style bitters made from mountain herbs to a richer, rootsier digestif made from citrus peels, chamomile, anise, green tea and vermouth, are light enough for sipping solo, but perform gorgeously as choral accompaniments.
— In a place where the lives and histories of Indian tribes and white settlers intertwine like mingling mountain streams, a bitter battle has erupted on this land over the rivers running through it.
The harshness of the weather they work in — the bitter glacial wind and high-mountain sun — was inscribed on the cheeks of many of the women, and some of the children, in the dark blooms of frostbite scars.
Like Voltaire's "Candide," this parade of misfortunes ends with a garden, "a weed-infested vegetable garden" in the deserted Bitter Bamboo Monastery on Bitter Bamboo Mountain, and with a doubt cast on palliative human wisdom, represented in this case by Confucius' "Analects".
Mr Goetz talks of the deal being "bittersweet" for Sequoia - though most us would feel rather more sweet than bitter about receiving such a huge mountain of money.
Moore turned his men, and retreated to Corunna, over mountain roads and through bitter winter weather.
Utah won the bitter state rivalry game and took the undisputed Mountain West Conference title away from the two-time defending champion Cougars (10-2, 6-2).
If it had been, the tornadoes that came hollering down from over Lone Mountain and across the aptly named Bitter Creek could well have erased it.
