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

They would say "No"; but we must, for they live hard.

From Side Lights by Allen, Grant

“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

They live hard by, if so be they have not changed their lodgings.

From The Sign of the Red Cross by Everett-Green, Evelyn

Hard to live; hard to die; intolerable suspense!

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman