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
I suppose the great change of place affects me, but I could not have lived in Town, I could not bear company.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
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
That night I lay in a dank and gloomy cell of the prison of Toulouse, with never a hope to bear company during those dark, wakeful hours.
From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael
In point of fact, I had lurked at home because I could not bear company.
From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
