In that land the small contractor and Bush-rancher must bear the brunt on his body every day, toiling waist-deep in icy waters, or gripping the drill with bleeding hands, while each fresh misfortune that follows flood and frost is met with a further strain on weary muscles and sterner resolution.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
As it happened, she did not know that those who bear the brunt of that grim strife are for the most part dumb.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Such self-abnegation caused him to become the full brunt of the beatings.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills