Bear

We had barbecued bear for dinner.

One evening about this time, when his Lordship did me the honour to sup at my lodgings with Dr. Robertson and several other men of literary distinction, he regretted that Johnson had not been educated with more refinement, and lived more in polished society. 'No, no, my Lord, (said Signor Baretti,) do with him what you would, he would always have been a bear.'

This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]

By the time we got into Tulsa Town We had eighty-five trucks in all But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf And them bears was wall-to-wall. Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper They even had a bear in the air. I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck. We about to go a-huntin' bear."

'The bear's pulling somebody off there at 74,' reported someone else.

He was listening for reports of Kojaks with Kodaks, or bear sightings (cop alerts) at his front door (ahead of him), especially plain wrappers (unmarked police cars) parked at specific yardsticks (mile-markers) taking pictures […]

Bears are usually hunky, chunky types reminiscent of railroad engineers and former football greats.

Bear sought by masculine white male, 30, 5'8", 165 lbs, for weekly safe encounter. I'm in a long-term relationship and seek outside fun. You: tall, masculine, over 200 lbs, discreet, moustache.

I have everything it takes to be a bear: broad shoulders, full beard, semibald pate, and lots of body hair. But I don't want to be a fetish.

There are numerous social organizations for bears in most parts of the United States. Lesbians don't have such prominent sexual subcultures as gay men, although, as just mentioned, some lesbians are into BDSM practices.

Bunyip Bluegum was a tidy bear, he objected to whisker soup[.]

That window can be a bear to open.

"This was a real bear to refinish. You can't believe how hard it was right here to get a thousand years of crud out of this carving."

to bear a railroad stock

to bear the market

The great bear market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors.

They came bearing gifts.

Judging from the look on his face, he wasn't bearing good news.

The little boat bore us to our destination.

This plant's light and fluffy seeds may be borne by the wind to remote islands.

what the market will bear

I'll bear your logs the while.

In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.

They surged about her, caught her up and bore her.

the right to bear arms

The queen bore the royal scepter and crown as she processed into the hall.

The scan showed that the ewe was bearing twins.

She still bears the scars from a cycling accident.

The stone bears a short inscription.

This bears all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack.

[…] male stag-beetles often bear wounds from the huge mandibles of other males.

The shield bore a red cross.

He bore the look of a defeated man.

The body was unclothed, and bore the appearance of being washed up by the sea.

The school still bears the name of its founder.

[…] imitations that bear the same name as the things […]

Heinrich Olbers described the paradox that bears his name in 1823.

The dictator bears a terrible reputation for cruelty.

The bond bears a fixed interest rate of 3.5%.

Only the male Indian elephant bears tusks.

to bear a grudge, to bear ill will

the ancient grudge I bear him

The brothers had always borne one another respect.

to bear life

The punishment bears no relation to the crime.

His achievements bear testimony to his ability.

The jury could see he was bearing false witness.

This word no longer bears its original meaning.

Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform.

She bore herself well throughout the ordeal.

Thus must thou thy body bear.

Hath he borne himself penitently in prison?

Every man should bear rule in his own house.

Bear them to my house.

This stone bears most of the weight.

The pain is too much for me to bear.

It doesn’t bear thinking about.

I would never move to Texas — I can't bear heat.

This reasoning will not bear much analysis.

Please bear with me as I try to find the book you need.

I cannot, cannot bear; ’tis past , ’tis done; / Perish this impious , this detested son; […]

Man is born to bear.

[…] We are fools and slight; ⁠We mock thee when we do not fear: ⁠But help thy foolish ones to bear; Help thy vain worlds to bear thy light.

Events that might cause suffering in others may be borne without complaint by someone who believes that the disease is part of his or her family identity and hence inevitable. Even diseases for which no heritable basis is known may be borne easily by a person because others in the family have been similarly afflicted.

There's this fear deep inside of me / Like there's something I cannot see / And it's coming after me / It's hard to bear

The hirer must bear the cost of any repairs.

He shall bear their iniquities.

What have you gotten there under your arm, Daughter? somewhat, I hope, that will bear your Charges in your Pilgrimage.

In all criminal cases the most favourable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear.

This storm definitely bears monitoring.

An unusually high percentage of the hundreds of gay men who participated in the experimental trials for this vaccine (1978-1980) developed AIDS. Since these trials occurred at about the same time as the first AIDS cases in the same cities […] a possible connection at least bears careful study.

[…] admitted to that equal sky, / His faithful dog shall bear him company.

[…] and he finds the Pleasure, and Credit of bearing a Part in the Conversation, and of having his Reasons sometimes approved and hearken'd to.

The rope has frayed where it bears on the rim of the wheel.

These men therefore bear hard upon the suspected party.

to bring arguments to bear

How does this bear on the question?

The cannons were wheeled around to bear upon the advancing troops.

2012, Ronald D. Utt, Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron Constitution's gun crews crossed the deck to the already loaded larboard guns as Bainbridge wore the ship around on a larboard tack and recrossed his path in a rare double raking action to bring her guns to bear again on Java's damaged stern.

In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.

The twins were borne by an Italian mother.

The powerful Bene Gesserit sisterhood for ninety generations has been manipulating bloodlines to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, a superbeing. On Caladan, Jessica, a member of the sisterhood and the bound concubine of Duke Leto Atreides, had been ordered to bear only daughters. Because of her love for the duke, she disobeyed and gave birth to a son: Paul, Paul Atreides.

This year our apple trees bore a good crop of fruit.

Betwixt two seasons comes th' auspicious air, / This age to blossom, and the next to bear.

Carry on past the church and then bear left at the junction.

By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.

Great Falls bears north of Bozeman.

Some think to bear it by speaking a great word.

She was […] found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.

There are several plots of those species of barley called big, which is six-rowed barley; or bear, which is four-rowed, cultivated.

Bigg or bear, with four grains on the ear, was the kind of barley.

Two stacks of beare, of xx boules,

[…] one wheat stack, one half-stack of corn, and a little hay, all standing in the barnyard; four stacks of bear in the barn, about three bolls of bear lying on the barn floor, two stacks of corn in the barn, […]

Your Horses are Getting Pease Straw, and looking very well. The 2 Stacks of Bear formerly mentioned as Put in by Mr Bookless is not fully dressed as yet so that I cannot say at present what Quantity they may Produce .

And, according to this, one of my Neighbours made a Bag, like a Pillow-bear, of the ordinary six-penny yard Cloth, and boiled his Hops in it half an Hour; then he took them out, and put in another Bag of the like Quantity of fresh Hops, […]

ij payer of schete, ij pelows wt the berys,

1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]

I give to my Grand Child Lidea Carpenter the Coverlid that her mother spun and my pillow bear and a pint Cup & my great Pott that belongs to the Pott and Trammels.

[…] a man's eyes played him false, sitting him before tables proper with damask and pewter, leading him to fall into beds gracious with small and large feather beds for softness and pillowed luxuriously under pretty checked linen pillow bears.

But he must ever watch the northern Bear, Who from her frozen height with jealous eye Confronts the Dog and the Hunter in the south, And is alone not dipt in Ocean's stream.

Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.