1 Then they would have some frightful experiences with the cold.
2 It was a bitter and cruel experience, and it plunged them into an agony of despair.
3 This was the experience of Antanas; and then there came also Jonas and Marija with tales to tell.
4 He sat in a dance hall with Jurgis and Halloran until one or two in the morning, exchanging experiences.
5 Somewhere back in the far-distant past Tommy Finnegan had had a strange experience, and the burden of it rested upon him.
6 "Comrade" Lucas was not what is called an educated man; he knew only the Bible, but it was the Bible interpreted by real experience.
7 He had had no experience with unions, and he had to have it explained to him that the men were banded together for the purpose of fighting for their rights.
8 This was a fearful experience, with filth and bad food and cruelty and overwork; but Jurgis stood it and came out in fine trim, and with eighty rubles sewed up in his coat.
9 So for several days he had been going about, ravenous all the time, and growing weaker and weaker, and then one morning he had a hideous experience, that almost broke his heart.
10 In the morning before Jurgis had finished his breakfast, "Pat" Murphy ordered him to one of the superintendents, who questioned him as to his experience in the work of the killing room.
11 Also one night a strange man caught little Kotrina by the arm and tried to persuade her into a dark cellar-way, an experience which filled her with such terror that she was hardly to be kept at work.
12 He had not stopped for his-overcoat when he set out to "do up" Connor, and so his rides in the patrol wagons had been cruel experiences; his clothing was old and worn thin, and it never had been very warm.
13 A very few days of practical experience in this land of high wages had been sufficient to make clear to them the cruel fact that it was also a land of high prices, and that in it the poor man was almost as poor as in any other corner of the earth; and so there vanished in a night all the wonderful dreams of wealth that had been haunting Jurgis.