Sentence examples for bitter waters from inspiring English sources
THE BITTER WATERS OF MEDICINE CREEK: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America, by Richard Kluger (Knopf, $28.95).
"The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek" is a worthy spinoff of "Seizing Destiny," which described the active and often ugly process of taking the continent.
The Nisqually, as Kluger shows, have not disappeared, and "The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek" is an eloquent account of a massacre's legacies as well as its history.
The clear, unmistakable message comes to me that on that Christmastide, in the bleak and bitter waters off the shores of Korea, God's own hand was at the helm of my ship".
Such talk elicits a rant from a heavy-drinking lawyer with a generous heart: "It's not for me to say why, in the inscrutable wisdom of God, a genius should ever have been called from this place of hatred and bitter waters".
The monastery, this structure of stone that endures, between the bitter waters and precipitous cliffs, with its oven and its inkwells, its mill and its cesspool, its constellation of sacred fonts and the unadorned graves of its dead, is perhaps, more than Bethlehem or Nazareth, the cradle of Christianity.
And I doubt they've been sweated off, so there'll be a lot of bitter water coming off when we cook those.
Food arrived icy to barely warmed and overly salty, cream was curdled (in two pitchers), coffee cool and bitter, water musty.
About 1100 B.C., the Mayans and Aztecs of Central America created a cocoa-based beverage they called "bitter water" and hailed as an aphrodisiac and a stimulant.
The gorge, well known among climbers, sits on the northern edge of the Owens Valley in eastern California, a place of austere beauty and violent history, from huge volcanic eruptions 730,000 years ago to bitter water wars waged in the last century.
(The 1974 neo-noir movie "Chinatown" was based on the insider land grab by speculators and the bitter water wars the Department of Water and Power fought during the 1930s with Owens Valley residents).By then, however, Mulholland had turned his attention east to the Colorado River as another potential source of water for Los Angeles.
