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
The most robust could only bear up against it a few days.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
Here is comfort sufficient to make a Christian bear up against the hardships and reproaches he is exposed to in his warfare.
From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann
"You are strong, Hellinger," she said, "bear up against the door; perhaps you may succeed in breaking the lock."
From The Wish A Novel by Sudermann, Hermann
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
