“In this winter night, long and ample for bitter memories, many a widow who lost her husband in the war and is now left alone will press her palms to her ageing face; and in the nocturnal darkness the burning tears, as bitter as wormwood, will scorch her fingers.”
From A Word on Our Country.
One Man's Destiny (1967)
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Mikhail Sholokhov 6
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Un soir, j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux. - Et je l'ai trouvée amère.
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Which, being vented, is less bitter now.”
Così fa ch'ella un poco il duol raffrena;
Ch'avendo ove sfogarlo, è meno acerbo.
Canto XLII, stanza 28 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)