But those things did not bear thinking about right now.

"The thing doesn't even bear talking about," he said.

"The things you kids know just don't bear thinking about," said a tall policeman, with a grin.

The third thing I would say doesn't bear directly on gun control but it's very important.

Such a thing as that did not bear much thought either.

Perhaps the most important thing to bear in mind," the doctor called, "is not to create too much of an upward motion.

The thing was bearing her far out from shore.

Perhaps it's a way of admitting that things can't ever bear the same certainty again.

There is a language in which all things bear their true names, and deed and word are one.

Basically the entire thing did not bear looking at.