He followed that trail backward and was surprised at the pure, bitter gall he found there.

It was a bitter gall.

There was no time to grieve; barely time enough to taste the bitter gall of having come so close.

I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.

Al-Malik tasted once again the bitter gall of disappointment in theback of his throat.

He stopped with his heart racing savagely and the bitter gall of terror in the back of his throat.

'There's two sides to you, you know, Aggie, and one's unfair and as bitter as gall.'

Head bowed, he mumbled: "Mostly it was bitter gall.

And when I drank, cup held in shaking hands now lacking a finger each, I tasted blood and bitter gall.

To be branded as racist for that success was bitter gall.