bore upon
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Chairman Sophie Irene Loeb, President of the Child Welfare Board, began the speechmaking, all of which bore upon uniform national laws concerning child protection and widows' pensions.
From Time Magazine Archive
If there seemed to be the least chance that a horse could be caught, down he bore upon him full tilt, shouting, 'Now for it!
From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
L— was handsome; besides, he bore upon his person the evidence of a higher quality—courage; the quality that, before all others, will win the heart of a woman.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne
Now it seemed as though He bore upon His brow an invisible helm of victory, on which the dove of the Holy Spirit rested with outspread wings.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
Such conversation as there was bore upon the probable verdict, and it was the opinion of the audience that it would be an adverse one.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
