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 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 Leslie, Eliza
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
The men were more inclined to bear hard on the Marchese Lamberto.
From A Siren by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.'
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
