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
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They could live hard, lie hard, sleep hard, eat dogs!—in a word they were ready to do and suffer anything for the good of the enterprise.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington
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
Let us live hard, work hard, go at a good pace, get to our journey's end as soon as possible; then let the post-horse get the shoulder out of the collar.
From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng
“You live hard, though, and your father grows no richer,” observed Eban.
From Michael Penguyne Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast by Kingston, William Henry Giles