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

They had retreated, leaving their instruments—a circumstance which seemed to bear hard on the Duke of Buckingham, their patron.

From Peveril of the Peak by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.'

From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

"I wish, indeed," said Mrs. Allerton, "that some of those influential persons would be so public-spirited as to set the example of dispensing with all customs that bear hard on people in narrow circumstances."

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza