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 are “the near,” who live hard by the city and house of God.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

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

To work hard, live hard, die hard, and go to hell after all, would be hard indeed.

From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Martin, Benj. N.

Now, here’s what I say: you’ll berth forward, and you’ll live hard, and you’ll speak soft, and you’ll keep sober, till I give the word; and you may lay to that, my son.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis