bitter experience;  misery;  distress;  grief;  sad thoughts;  hardship
 bitter experience;  misery;  distress;  grief;  sad thoughts;  hardship
 to have a hard time of it;  to have a bitter experience
 wretched life;  life of misery
 wretched life;  life of misery
 to be absorbed in;  to devote oneself (to);  to give oneself over (to)