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
She had evidently passed a night of great sorrow, and seemed with difficulty to bear up against the calamitous tidings of which he was the bearer.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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
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
But I am glad to find you bear up against it so well.”
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison
