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
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To live hard, work hard, and run the risk every day of having to die hard.
From Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle by Forestier, A.
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
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
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