live hard
Example Sentences
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Men marked by prowess but by no particular ambition, David and Charles live hard but enjoyably in the wilderness, go on great sprees when they come to town, feel no need of a change.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost all the men are handsome, but live hard, it is said, in order to decorate their backs with those fine clothes of theirs.
From From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Thackeray, William Makepeace
"I'm always early, sir, for I live hard by."
From Sketches by Seymour — Volume 05 by Seymour, Robert
Sir, pray rather to live hard, that ye may die easy, than to be fooled and fluted all through life, as to the pipe and tabor, and, in the last hour, be plunged among misfortunes!
From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis
They live hard lives in those new lands.
From The Judgment House by Parker, Gilbert
