bear hard on

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

At a Washington concert a Congressman from Alabama rose in the midst of one of Ole's improvisations and shouted: "None of your highfalutin, but give us Hail Columbia, and bear hard on the treble!"

From Time Magazine Archive

"I wish, indeed," said Mrs. Allerton, "that some of those influential persons would be so public-spirited as to set the example of dispensing with all customs that bear hard on people in narrow circumstances."

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

On the other hand the rising prices would bear hard on those laborers dependent on fixed wages, though relieving the burden of fixed rents.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

These men bear hard on the suspected party.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

I don't want," he said, "to bear hard on Bulstrode, who has lent me money of which I was in need—though I would rather have gone without it now.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George