They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

Some of the flowers in bloom, too, would not bear transplanting.

Of several hundred alleged jokes, two or three will bear transplanting.

Stocks and stones have been adored in fifty regions, but do not bear transplanting.

Of course, none of these things bear transplanting or expressing.

A man of my years does not readily bear transplanting.

I desire to know whether Mr. Lincoln's principles will bear transplanting from Ottawa to Jonesboro.

The young Breton does not bear transplanting.

I remember hearing an old friend of my early days say, 'A woman does not bear transplanting.'

Some annuals do not bear transplanting well; as poppies, bartonia, Venus' looking-glass, the dwarf convolvulus, lupinus, and malope.

Whether they are happy there I do not know; so few trees, when at all grown, will bear transplanting.