cup of bitterness

That was the last drop in the cup of bitterness.

But his cup of bitterness was not yet full to overflowing.

He had fed many times from the deep cup of bitterness inside Tom Miller.

No child ever drank deeper of the cup of bitterness than I did.

The daughter of Babylon will rise from the throne of her splendor to drink from the cup of bitterness.

She would be unhappy, because she truly loved him, and because this would be the first cup of bitterness which life was holding out to her.

"In the words of the great Martin Luther King Jr., 'Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred,' " Mr. Bush said.

For still She stands, and, blind with love, shoots the shuttle of our fate, and pours sweet water into the cup of bitterness, and poisons the wholesome breath of life with the doom of her desire.

I asked myself, and I hesitated to write to you; but my silence would have wounded the religion of the heart; and the deeper a grief the more it needs, before it can be blotted out, to drain to the dregs its cup of bitterness.

This watching by moonlight is a kind of sport that I do not admire; it is a sort of midnight murder, and many a poor brute who comes to the silent pool to cool his parched tongue, finds only a cup of bitterness, and retires again to his jungle haunts to die a lingering death from some unskilful wound.