For centuries, their descendants led a harsh and precarious existence, relying heavily on the sea to provide food.
His had been a harsh existence, filled with hard decisions.
Well did she know how it was to live a harsh existence with few luxuries.
"It must have been a very harsh existence," Cilia said, with sympathy.
Associates said she twice broke off engagements to men who would not share her harsh existence.
To that extent it is a harsh existence, quite unlike that of the artists, musicians and writers with whom he normally mixes.
An unspecified war or series of wars has dragged the world back into a harsh, preindustrial existence.
It is a harsh existence, and one that has sometimes drawn a public spotlight.
The people lived a harsh existence exposed to the elements and pirates.
