The children had learned by many bitter lessons to fight shy of him.

If he and his kind come to power then we will learn a bitter lesson in slavery.

It was a bitter lesson but, unfortunately, a very African one.

Gradually, theory gave way to the bitter lessons of experience.

They started off with a loss - their first, bitter lesson in market economics.

It is a bitter lesson that all women must learn, little heart.

It would be a bitter lesson, no doubt of that.

Things do not go quite his way, and he ends up learning a bitter lesson.

His failed efforts for tax reform provided a bitter lesson.

In that earlier period I had still been determined to give humanity a bitter lesson.