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

And difficult it is to see how human strength could bear up against such a certainty, where the vision was of ill.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

"Tell me so much as you may of them, and I will try to help you to bear up against them."

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

But how should I pray! or how bear up against my grief?

From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Bayle, Pierre

Ruin, poverty, all its fearful ills, stood before her in perspective, and how could Mary's fragile frame and gentle spirit bear up against them?

From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace