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
He was so old-fashioned as to imagine that to get on, a man must work hard, study hard, live hard, and stand by for the chance to come.
From Command by McFee, William
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 tabour, and, in the last hour, be plunged among misfortunes!
From The Black Arrow A Tale of the Two Roses by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
They live hard by, in the Calle maior.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John
