1901 - Joseph Conrad, In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.
1881: Oscar Wilde, "", Poems, page 44When, bright with purple and with gold, Come priest and holy cardinal, And borne above the heads of all The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
c.2000 - , IIIrving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.
1907, Harold Edward Bindloss, The Dust of Conflict chapter 21 http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4429277W“Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you....â€
