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 could live hard, lie hard, sleep hard, eat dogs!—in a word they were ready to do and suffer anything for the good of the enterprise.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington
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 Cooke, John Esten
They live hard by, if so be they have not changed their lodgings.
From The Sign of the Red Cross by Everett-Green, Evelyn
They live hard lives in those new lands.
From The Judgment House by Parker, Gilbert
