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 live hard lives in those new lands.
From The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker
Only oblige yourself to live hard for a little time, till you have saved five shillings out of your own earnings.
From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by Hannah More
But if an equality of goods is established, this may be either too much, when it enables the people to live luxuriously, or too little, when it obliges them to live hard.
From Politics: A Treatise on Government by William Ellis
In his habits and feelings he was not the self-indulgent man of peace, but the thorough soldier, willing to live hard, to sleep upon the ground, and to disregard all sensual indulgence.
From A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke
