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

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

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

Well, that was as it should be—to live hard in the present without brooding over the past or dreaming of the future....

From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy

Let us live hard, work hard, go a good pace, get to our journey’s end as soon as possible—then let the post-horse get his shoulder out of the collar.

From Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife by Kingsley, Fanny E.