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

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

But if an equality of goods is established, this may be either too much, when it enables the people to live luxuriously, or too little, when it obliges them to live hard.

From Politics: A Treatise on Government by Ellis, William

It is the usual condition of mind upon such occasions amongst men who live hard.

From The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country by Cullum, Ridgwell

Sir, pray rather to live hard, that ye may die easy, than to be fooled and fluted all through life, as to the pipe and tabor, and, in the last hour, be plunged among misfortunes! 

From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis