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

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

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

I have not scrupled to bear hard on my own university, on the Royal Society, and on other respectable existences: being very much the friend of all.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

"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