2435 examples of bear to in sentences

I didn't think that my nerves would be in a fit state to tell the police how I found the body without betraying to them that I knew something about it; and I couldn't bear to think of Sir Horace's body lying neglected all alone in that empty house till the following daythough I kept that reason to myself.

can you bear to believe that Numa, Camillus, Fabricius, the Scipios, the Catos, that Cicero, Seneca, that Titus and the Antonini, are in the flames of Hell, the accursed objects of the divine hatred?

I cannot bear to look at her.

It was because the doll was so ugly; I felt sure no one would buy her, and I couldn't bear to think of her loneliness.

He used to think it was only because the boys were so kind-hearted that they could not bear to refuse any request which a poor cripple made.

He could not bear to think of that peaceful, happy retreat, the nest of his dove, the home of his heart, as desecrated by such a presence on such an errand.

I thought of the wife and children of the unfortunate Theobald, and I entreated one of my brethren, a captain, in great favor with his chieftain, to bear to the latter a letter which I wrote, notwithstanding my great weakness, in which I earnestly requested, as a personal favor, that he would allow the wife and family of Theobald to be conducted safely from the chateau.

I could hardly bear to tell him the dreadful news.

She could not bear to have them hate her when she loved them

I know that all men now take a part in the question, and that they will no longer bear to be imposed upon now they are well informed.

Some of its advocates are frank enough to avow, as the reason for this prohibition, that slavery cannot bear to be discussed.

could I bear to see my poor child wandering up and down, wringing her hands like a mad womanI who have lived for no one else this sixteen years?

He said he could not bear to part from me in public.

Day after day he fed, admired, and caressed them; and Fred, who never could bear to see others happy long, began to revolve in his own mind certain plans respecting the chickens.

Misery loves company to such an extent that I could not bear to think that there was any girl living who did not occasionally have to grapple with the problem of at least one man in the raw, if only for her own discipline.

There were certain feelings of pain, and fear, and mortification, now associated with that place which she could not bear to dwell upon, and which greatly balanced those sentiments of refuge and repose, of peace and love, with which the old hall, in her mind, was heretofore connected.

Therefore, I cannot bear to be quiet now!

The family had retired to rest when we went to bed, at midnight; but the hairdresser (a corpulent man, in drab slippers) was still sitting there, with his legs stretched out before him, and evidently couldn't bear to have the shutters put up.

It is indeed a kind of Mimickry, by which another puts on our Air of Conversation to show us to our selves: He seems to look ridiculous before you, that you may remember how near a Resemblance you bear to him, or that you may know he will not lie under the Imputation of believing you.

Sometimes it seems more than I can bear to have to stay away.

Each had two daughters, who, with the natural tastes of the sex, were not averse to the graces of education, in the abstract, but could not bear to see them displayed by their "stuck-up, pauper cousin," as they often termed that hapless young lady in private conversation.

"I can't bear to see the poor beast so worried.

He could not, therefore, leave London, and Mrs. Hamilton who, for mere amusement, could not bear to part from her children, for only Caroline was to accompany her, steadily resisted the entreaties of her friend.

She could not bear to hear me cough.

She had watched it with the fascination of abhorrence; and once, feeling that she could not bear to see him come in with his mother and younger brother, she had started to leave the church.

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