bear hard on
Example Sentences
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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
It may bear hard on my feelings--I do not say it will not--but duty is duty, and it must be done.
From Wyandotte by James Fenimore Cooper
"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 Eliza Leslie
Men have appended huge comments to it, and have softened some of its plain precepts which bear hard on popular sins.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren
Nor was the new Viceroy of a temper to bear hard on the feeble remains of the native aristocracy.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
