bear company
Example Sentences
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Mike Feuer sued trucking companies linked to California Cartage, alleging they had misclassified drivers as independent contractors, depriving them of employee benefits and improperly forcing them to bear company costs.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2018
In point of fact, I had lurked at home because I could not bear company.
From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
She can be of no further use in servitude, and I would have thee set her free to bear company to her love, the white-souled Rachel.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth
I am so weak and faint, I do not see even my nearest relations, and God knows how long it will be before I am able to bear company, much less application.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
Bumpus, however, declared he was that tired he preferred staying in the camp, to keep the bear company.
From The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol by Carter, Herbert
