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 Cooper, James Fenimore
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
"If a puff brings the boat up into the wind, then the wind don't bear hard on the sail, and it won't upset the boat."
From All Adrift or The Goldwing Club by Optic, Oliver
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 Maclaren, Alexander
