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 Parker, Gilbert

"I'm always early, sir, for I live hard by."

From Sketches by Seymour — Volume 05 by Seymour, Robert

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 More, Hannah

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