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

And then, if you are willing, we will go home and have a bit of lunch—I live hard by.

From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

They are “the near,” who live hard by the city and house of God.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

Now, here’s what I say: you’ll berth forward, and you’ll live hard, and you’ll speak soft, and you’ll keep sober, till I give the word; and you may lay to that, my son.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Only oblige yourself to live hard for a little time, till you have saved five shillings out of your own earnings.

From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah