bear up against

Example Sentences

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To bear up against nature’s indifference can be invigorating and also corrective.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

But, gaining hope from Nellie's smiles, Dick was ready to bear up against the old man's fit of rage.

From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by King, Charles

"Your calamity is a heavy one, but mine is harder to bear up against."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

But how should I pray! or how bear up against my grief?

From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Bayle, Pierre

He has no power to bear up against it, and goes away by himself, and cries bitterly, sonorously, and towards the last, I suspect, rather ostentatiously.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various