"Bear on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... speculations had turned out badly. When pressed by Sham Babu to repay the loan, he asked for time, pleading that his whole capital was locked up. Sham Babu, however, was obdurate, and with his brother-in-law's help he brought such pressure to bear on Gopal that the latter sulkily agreed to give him a mortgage on an ancestral estate in the Mufassil (interior of Bengal). Sham Babu stuck closely to him until the bargain had been fulfilled, and managed matters so expeditiously that the mortgage deed was drawn up, executed, and registered in a week. ...
— Tales of Bengal • S. B. Banerjea
... laugh. "As I remarked to Rex, early this morning," her father continued, adjusting his eyeglass, "hang the Gomps!" Rex discreetly offered no comment. "Moreover," the colonel went on, bringing all the severity his eyeglass permitted to bear on them both, "I decline to go walking any longer with a pair of lunatics. I shall confide you both to Sepp and will wait for you ...
— In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers
... confine the prayer, When kindred thoughts and yearnings bear On the frail heart the purest share With all that live?— The best of what we do and are, ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. II. • William Wordsworth
... President Wilson appreciates the gravity of the situation and that means are being taken to place our position not only before the Swedish people but those of Swedish birth and descent in the United States whose influence should be brought to bear on their friends and relatives ...
— Face to Face with Kaiserism • James W. Gerard
... in one's way, Who wants to play the ass's part, Bear on his back the wizard Art, And in ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various
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