bitter water

You are now in the bitter waters, my child.

But that, too, seemed to have lost its taste, going down more like bitter water than nectar.

"He must pass through the bitter waters to reach the sweet.

In another moment he would open his mouth and breathe in the bitter water Light.

Moses throws a log into the bitter water, making it sweet.

May the next bring up a better jewel, and leave no bitter water on your lips!'

It lay beneath him, a bowl of bitter waters.

It will break beneath her feet, and she will plunge into the bitter water.

In the bitter water wars of California, there have been big winners and big losers.

To be a queen - that would not sweeten the bitter water against which I had been building the dam in my soul.

Young leaves may be boiled and eaten as vegetables, discarding the bitter water.

It was a nauseous draught from the bitterest waters of Islam.

She felt another wave of pain approaching; felt the bitter waters rise around her head.

If the woman was unharmed by the bitter water, the rules regard her as innocent of the accusation.

Holding his breath, Kirk gulped down a mouthful of the bitter waters.

"They must drink bitter waters before they face My Judgment."

Hands dragged him out of the lake, left him retching bitter water on the shore.

He coughed up the bitter water he had swallowed.

The bitter waters can only be effective miraculously.

We and you too, you most of all, dear boy, will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet.

I brought it close to my lips, blew on it, then gulped the warm, bitter water.

In this bosom of a crater, salt and bitter water is found at a depth of only six feet from the surface.

The drops of bitter water swelled to form a wave of terrible force and power, which crashed down on the world.

That is a dry land and the spring at Two Prong is of bitter water.

The one sizable well yields bitter water.