bitter cup

And on that account ye had to drink the bitter cup of your love.

Then, in the midst of splendor, they drank their bitter cup.

Someone came in as I nursed and cursed the first weak, bitter cup.

Mr President, it has fallen to my country's government to drink of this bitter cup.

"That is the bitterest cup of all," said Israel.

Until he could come to their rescue they must swallow the bitter cup of resignation to the dregs.

This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup.

What a bitter cup you have poured me!"

At Valence, however, the Emperor had a bitter cup to drain.

What a bitter cup to drink from!

Twyla Tharp asked over a bitter cup of coffee.

She takes another sip from the bitter cup and curls her tongue, like maybe she forgot.

The last line of this extra verse is "Life was a bitter cup for the saddest of all men."

You who will live long, must drink deep of memory--a bitterer cup.

He'd made her drain a bitter cup.

If he had done nothing else, he had drained the bitter cup to the dregs.

The bitter cup of adversity has been drained by me to the very dregs, and I feel that the grave is not far distant.

Ms. Mantel's bitter cups of tea will not suit everyone, but they offer a biting refreshment.

In the agony-dimmed eyes turned toward him, Kane quaffed the black dregs of the bitter cup.

Hence my dismay at this latest bitter cup being forced upon us by the codgers who manage the Olympics.

"This is a bitter cup to drink," murmured Suzanne, "yet there is some sweetness in it, for at least my husband lives."

She was so startled she almost dropped the bitter cup of coffee she was holding.

He had fallen to a low state, as had his brother officers, whom Hitler now forced to drink the bitter cup to its dregs.

"I know what it is to have lost a love-more than once I have sipped at that particular bitter cup."

Just after dawn the next day, Gideon was yawning over a bitter cup of coffee at the cook fire in front of his tent.