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Meanings of bitter water in English

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Usage of bitter water in English
1
They found the spring and drank eagerly of the somewhat bitter water.
Dave Porter in the Gold Fields; Or, The Search for the Landslide...
2
She wouldn't watch a man drown in a scald of bitter water.
The marrowbone marble company
3
It's a famous place for cocoanuts and bitter water, that Sancho's Island.
The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea
4
The bitter water filled the valley and became Moru, the Lake of Tears.
The Neverending Story
5
His soul has no thirst for that brackish and bitter water.
Sermons on Biblical Characters
6
The cart could not get further than the last bitter water we passed today.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
7
Stones to eat and bitter water for their thirst, and stripes for tender nurture.
She
8
Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament
9
Then she drank deeply of the bitter water and lay down on the cold ground.
The Heart of the Desert / Kut-Le of the Desert
10
My chief sits by the bitter water and waits.
The Time Traders
11
Anger builds inside me, replacing my blood with bitter water and filling me, consuming me.
Divergent
12
Was not bitter water made sweet with wood?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
13
A bitter water came up in his mouth.
Cry to heaven
14
May the next bring up a better jewel, and leave no bitter water on your lips!'
Jo's Boys
15
He said, Because it's easier to turn Blight- bitter water into beer than it is to purify it.
Boneshaker
16
The one sizable well yields bitter water.
Roma eterna
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United Kingdom
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