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

“You live hard, though, and your father grows no richer,” observed Eban.

From Michael Penguyne Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Many of them are rough characters and live hard and comfortless lives.

From Birdseye Views of Far Lands by Nichols, James T. (James Thomas)

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

“Aye, I hope so, I b’lieve ’tis so; but you’ll have to live hard, an’ work hard, an’ be hard, if you wants to prosper here.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden