bear hard on
Example Sentences
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At a Washington concert a Congressman from Alabama rose in the midst of one of Ole's improvisations and shouted: "None of your highfalutin, but give us Hail Columbia, and bear hard on the treble!"
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't want," he said, "to bear hard on Bulstrode, who has lent me money of which I was in need—though I would rather have gone without it now.
From Middlemarch by Eliot, George
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.'
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
The men were more inclined to bear hard on the Marchese Lamberto.
From A Siren by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
I have not scrupled to bear hard on my own university, on the Royal Society, and on other respectable existences: being very much the friend of all.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene
