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c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 37 (MED) What profite is it..to professe hygh living and in habite shew perfeccioun, if we bisie vs not to lerne vertu and exercise it in dede.

1868 Macmillan's Mag. July 285/1 Perhaps to be complete, hopeful anticipation for some remote future, when cruelty shall not be the dire law for sentient beings, ought to be one of the seeds of virtue and high living.

1916 J. H. McLean Living Christ for Lat. Amer. iv. 104 How can nations be won to Christianity and high living if the men who lead in every department of national affairs are not merely indifferent but antagonistic to religion?

1656 W. Sedgwick Animadversions upon Let. & Paper 37 Pride, Luxury, Lasciviousness: I suppose you intend onely his high living, though your words seem to charge his person with very foul abominations.

1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor xxx. 266 Nothing reduces a family to straits..but vice which is notably advanced toward in High-living; that is, living beyond ones rank, and above ones fortune.

1753 London Mag. July 318/1 We are like a man, who by high living has brought himself into an ill habit of body.

1791 W. Dalrymple Sequel Life of Christ xxxii. 182 What would introduce a habit of high living, with inordinate consumption of money and time, ought to be avoided.

1839 C. Ticknor Guide for Mothers & Nurses xiii. 235 The most efficient, if not the only original, cause of gout, is high living.

1857 Magnet 26 Oct. 6/3 Tell an epicure, who prides himself upon his smartness, that high living stupifies the brain.

1874 Pop. Sci. June 191 Those who cater to high-living are now announcing the arrival of ‘Soft-shell Crabs’.

1932 H. Simpson Boomerang x. 244 A thousand pounds, which she proposed..to blow in a couple of months' high living.

1979 V. B. Reber Brit. Mercantile Houses in Buenos Aires, 1810–80 vi. 135 British merchants, desiring to return to Great Britain, invested in Argentine development rather than dissipating money in high living.

2010 Daily Mail (Nexis) 18 Dec. His face bore full testimony to 30 years of high living and Californian sun.