abide vs bear the brunt

abide

verb
  • To endure without yielding; to withstand. 

  • Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”). 

  • To pay for; to stand the consequences of. 

  • To bear patiently. 

bear the brunt

verb
  • To endure the worst part of something. 

How often have the words abide and bear the brunt occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )