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
There is nothing pedantic or high-flown in this attitude which, with a noble solemnity, enabled Johnson to bear up against all odds and to steer right on.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
The courage that could bear up against such fearful odds and pluck the wreath of victory from the English navy, has covered the commanders of that time with abiding honors.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler
He has no power to bear up against it, and goes away by himself, and cries bitterly, sonorously, and towards the last, I suspect, rather ostentatiously.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
When, however, the weight of any misfortune comes, when the time arrives that they have to bear up against the hard pressure of life, these fellows come forth in their true colors, swindlers and cheats.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Lever, Charles James
