“The old petulance, the bearlike hunching ill-temper of his bachelor days has vanished.”

“A child psychiatrist and the medical director of the CD-CP, he is tweedy and bearlike, with curly brown hair and a salt-and-pepper beard.”

“Men bowed to each other with burlesque dancing school formality, offered arms, or accepted them with bearlike coyness.”

“Immortality, the birthless and deathless state of nirvana, lies beyond this cycle of the wheel of life.”

“Theory takes as its object things that are birthless and cannot be verbally articulated.”

“I bearly can find a small piece of land between the raindrops, a place where I can set my tent.”

“Without further ado, I step out of the bike and stick my hands into the rear bag and my finger had bearly touched the rain jacket that the rain started to pour violently and suddenly, waterdrops as big as my thumbs.”

“They all had this unbelievely strong accent that I could bearly understand an I could even catch a word neither from the first kid, nor from the second kid and nor from the third one.”

“The repeated photos in the papers would be more bearable and we could turn the sound down when they speak on telly and still feel a warm glow.”

“His wife and family did what they could to make life bearable, but his loneliness remained.”

“I will never fully recover from the loss, but your outpouring of kindness and understanding has made her death that much more bearable.”

“His adoptive parents described his birth parents as negligent in caring for him.”

“Trond was absolutely convinced that he was a born leader. Although, for the time being, he was the only one of that opinion.”

“I am a born Australian and proud of it.”

“The frames maintain the shoulder-strapped load in position upon the wearer's back and keep the borne items in position.”