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

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

They live hard lives in those new lands.

From The Judgment House by Parker, Gilbert

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

From Side Lights by Allen, Grant