"Acerbate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my dear. I thought your papa would not like it.' The poor girl had not spirit sufficient to upbraid her friend; nor did it suit her now to acerbate an enemy. For the moment, at least, she must yield to everybody and everything. She spent a lonely evening with her father in a dull sitting-room in the hotel, hardly speaking or spoken to, and the following day she was taken down to Caversham. She believed that her father had seen ...
— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope |
