bear company
Example Sentences
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Mike Feuer sued trucking companies linked to California Cartage, alleging they had misclassified drivers as independent contractors, depriving them of employee benefits and improperly forcing them to bear company costs.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2018
I suppose the great change of place affects me, but I could not have lived in Town, I could not bear company.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
They that should Sir Ruediger / to court bear company, Many a man full stately / in rich apparel might ye see.
From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by Needler, George Henry
That night I lay in a dank and gloomy cell of the prison of Toulouse, with never a hope to bear company during those dark, wakeful hours.
From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael
I am so weak and faint, I do not see even my nearest relations, and God knows how long it will be before I am able to bear company, much less application.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
