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- noun The
character orpersonality of abear .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Because brave American woodsmen can readily conquer the monarch of the American forest; and because the chicken-hearted Afric son, or dweller, trembles before the steady glare of the Afric King of Beasts, _ergo_ his bearship must in popular opinion, play subordinate to his lionship.
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters
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The whole party now advanced with rifles poised, ready to give the _coup de gráce_ to his bearship; when, with a thundering growl, _another_
Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler
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"Maybe his bearship will lay us low," put in Giant.
Guns and Snowshoes Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters Ralph Bonehill
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"We don't want to go home until we lay low his bearship."
Guns and Snowshoes Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters Ralph Bonehill
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Every one of us, in our haste to clear the way for his bearship, tumbled over each other until he was in a fair way to have us all in a heap to devour at leisure.
The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West
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There was nothing to be done but to keep quiet, and hope his bearship would go away.
Harper's Young People, January 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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He would wait calmly and quietly until his bearship should come within a few yards of him, and then he would slowly lift his gun.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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A short time after this, his bearship came to grief, and had to be sent on shore.
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"Thumper," an appropriate title, for, with the fat pickings of the restaurant, his bearship grew with a rapidity that made it a puzzle how his hide contained him.
Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899
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"Hit his bearship in the left ear," announced Dave.
Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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