bear hard on

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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

Men have appended huge comments to it, and have softened some of its plain precepts which bear hard on popular sins.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander

Nor was the new Viceroy of a temper to bear hard on the feeble remains of the native aristocracy.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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

The men were more inclined to bear hard on the Marchese Lamberto.

From A Siren by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus