But after a miserable year in exile, Aller went home to try and piece his life together.

However, I cannot conceive of you having to spend four miserable years in a maximum security prison.

Thomas could not adjust and was beset by personal problems that led to a miserable year.

Another miserable year followed in 1983, as Houston went 2-14.

She'd been battered emotionally and physically for five miserable years.

When we got off to that 35-5 start in '84, I had the most miserable year of my life.

Even if they were miserable years, I'd feel like a decent person.

Even miserable years with a future are better than no years.

But after two utterly miserable years at the military academy, he was allowed to return home.

By his own account, he spent a miserable year in a single room.