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
I found it necessary, however, to endeavour to bear up against all this, for my mind would not suffer me to dwell too much upon such misfortunes.
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by Surtees, William
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
How could people accustomed to ease and comfort bear up against such hardships?
From Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 by Wingate, F. R.
Against the accusation—against its fearful penalty—his own stout heart could sustain him; but how bear up against the contempt and the abhorrence of his fellow-men!
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
