live hard
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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
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Well, that was as it should be—to live hard in the present without brooding over the past or dreaming of the future....
From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy
To work hard, live hard, die hard, and go to hell after all, would be hard indeed.
From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Martin, Benj. N.
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
The descendants of the man who found the body of Rufus in the New Forest still live hard by.
From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Geddes, Patrick