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  • It made me weak in my knees, an 'I was winded anyway with runnin', an 'I stopped an' leant up against a tree, an 'Eb, he stopped too, takin' bearin's.

    Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

  • Seems to me as if that little story had some sort o 'bearin' on the subject you was discussin 'wi' Molly.

    Jeff Benson, or the Young Coastguardsman 1859

  • I'd cheerful hev stopped on a hint -- not from any leadin 'or conviction, but fer the sake o' bearin 'an example to these two blame boys of aours. "

    Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "'Kase it ain't a bay at all; but the entrance to a soun' bearin 'the name o' ` Whale-Boat Soun '.'

    The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850

  • Yes | No | Report from Reid Jones wrote 38 weeks 17 hours ago actually shane, i can get older trees and replant them onto my land. not too old to where they bear fruit but i think they're okay sized. i think about 5-10 years is as long as they take to start bearin fruit. i'm just worried about keeping the plant protected from deer eating the whole tree right away.

    i was thinking about planting some apple trees out on my land to attract deer towards where we hunt. 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from Reid Jones wrote 38 weeks 17 hours ago actually shane, i can get older trees and replant them onto my land. not too old to where they bear fruit but i think they're okay sized. i think about 5-10 years is as long as they take to start bearin fruit. i'm just worried about keeping the plant protected from deer eating the whole tree right away.

    i was thinking about planting some apple trees out on my land to attract deer towards where we hunt. 2009

  • I wonder if they would feel so high and mighty if they ran the risk of driving over a road-side bomb on the way to their botox appointment in their soccermom mobile – or in their confederate flag bearin 'pickup truck on the way to the lodge. noemi in los angeles

    McCain to make SNL appearance 2008

  • I wonder if they would feel so high and mighty if they ran the risk of driving over a road-side bomb on the way their botox appointment in their soccermom mobile – or in their confederate flag bearin 'pickup truck on the way to the lodge. sharrell, dc

    Schneider: Will West Virginia keep Clinton alive? 2008

  • Hardly a fuckin 'stampede to get rid of us, is it, bearin' in mind it's Boxing Day and everyone's on holiday?

    Fox Evil Walters, Minette 2002

  • 'For a while after that I'm having all these paranoid suspicions that I've been set up, that I'm going to get blackmailed by these birds for having shagged 'em, but then I realize that bearin' in mind the nature of the business the mum was running they wouldn't exactly be looking to provoke press and police attention.

    High Society Elton, Ben 2002

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