hard school

Not for nothing had he been through a hard school.

Most of them were young, like the commander, and all had learned in a hard school.

But the Duke had been raised in a harder school.

An impatient people, we learned patience in that hard school.

They had come up through the hard school and they knew their way around.

She'd learned in a hard school to trust it implicitly.

But the people won't take hold, and the immigrant, who has learned in a hard school, beats them out.

The year it opened, Hampshire was one of the hardest schools in the country to get into.

It was a very hard school because they were trying to get back the training lost during the cultural revolution."

The men had been trained, in a hard school, to obedience.

I met people who had survived a hard school of struggle."

What would I have given, to have been sent to the hardest school that ever was kept!

The big German was tough; he had served his apprenticeship in a hard school.

Earnestly: "But let us remember what a hard school that will be.

It was reputed to be the hardest school in the Corps.

It's a harder school of honor than ever Jervis taught.

That was a hard school I went through.

"I was raised to be a warrior, and trained in the hardest school of all.

She had learned in a hard school that there was no use grieving over what was done.

These hard-bit Scandinavian sailors had come through a hard school.

"Often I feel sorry for myself because of the all the hard school work I have," she wrote.

"Our interrogators learned their trade in a hard school.

Boys of Brooklyn today will tell you, "It's a hard school."

He who accepts with a smile whatever the gods may send, has mastered most important lesson in life's hard school.

But I don't deny keeping a hard school.