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
“Aye, I hope so, I b’lieve ’tis so; but you’ll have to live hard, an’ work hard, an’ be hard, if you wants to prosper here.
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
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.
You got a chance to look like me and live hard and die poor, and that's what'll happen if you stick by this low-life, good-for-nothing dawg you married.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
Why, she couldn't live hard enough, the days seemed so short!
From Little Miss By-The-Day by Van Slyke, Lucille
