bear up against

Example Sentences

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To bear up against nature’s indifference can be invigorating and also corrective.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

"Your calamity is a heavy one, but mine is harder to bear up against."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

But, gaining hope from Nellie's smiles, Dick was ready to bear up against the old man's fit of rage.

From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by King, Charles

Their own narrow fortunes, the very straits and privations of poverty, with all their cruel wounds to honest pride, and all their sore trials of temper, she could bear up against with an undaunted courage.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

And unable to bear up against the suddenness of the disclosure, Fleur-de-Marie fell fainting in the prince's arms.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 by Sue, Eugène