bitter experience

I knew that very well from long and bitter experience.

But he knew from bitter experience that the words never quite came out right.

But there was a great deal that people did not understand and would only learn through bitter experience.

I intended to see he kept my age and bitter experience in his mind.

They know from bitter experience that conventional war is not the answer.

The girl spoke from a full measure of bitter experience.

But Adam is the first man, and like all of us after him, he can only learn through bitter experience.

We know from bitter experience where that leads: to death.

It was a bitter experience, but I learned my lesson.

But Western investors know from bitter experience not to take them at face value.

But I also know from bitter experience that making the right choice is seldom a question of black or white.

He had come, through bitter experience, to expect the unusual and to think but little of it.

The level would be on the bottom, Lori knew from bitter experience.

Part of that desire for control is driven by bitter experience.

"We've had bitter experience in the past with similar resolutions," he said.

I knew by bitter experience this was their foremost skill.

His scheme, now, was to prepare himself to speak from bitter experience.

Unfortunately, from bitter experience she knew that such a decision was not hers to make.

But now from bitter experience they had learned revised tactics.

The women knew from bitter experience what this show of force presaged.

We have ascertained through sometimes bitter experience that not all people or things can be taken.

We have to learn by bitter experience, not blithe example.

This was an issue of which he had bitter experience, of course.

Families passed stories of their bitter experiences down through several generations.

That is the bitter experience they all encountered in Beirut between 1982 and 1984.