cross to bearin a sentence
- Her tone was one of lofty irritation: other people were her cross to bear.† (source)
- Tita always thanked God that her mother only bathed once a week, because otherwise her life would be a real cross to bear.† (source)
- Somewhere along about the Atlantic Ocean, the six pairs of underwear and cake mixes all commenced to be a considerable cross to bear.† (source)
- Francis chose to make it his cross to bear in life; he never understood why his Uncle Atticus remained on excellent but remote terms with his father—Francis thought Atticus should Do Something—or why his mother was not prostrate from his father's eccentric, therefore unforgivable, behavior.† (source)
- And then, slowly, she watched the second, perpendicular line appear: a plus sign, a positive, a cross to bear.† (source)
- If he's going to become one of the Lost Boys, it'll be his own cross to bear—but I have a battle to fight."† (source)
- We all have a cross to bear.† (source)
- What a cross to bear, and Miss Mattie Lou not hardly cold in the grave.† (source)
- The Lord sure give that poor woman a heavy cross to bear.† (source)
- I am her cross to bear: I am what makes her so good, in the eyes of others.† (source)
- But reconciliation with Tata Ndu was a mighty cross to bear.† (source)
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- "Quite right," said the manufacturer, who was always in a hurry and could never listen to anyone for very long, "everyone has his cross to bear."† (source)
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