39 adjectives to describe bully

One, who frequented our inn, and who was called the "bang-up coachman," was a swaggering bully, who not only lashed his horses unmercifully, but in one or two instances had beaten in a barbarous manner individuals who had quarrelled with him.

For one thing my indignation was too hot to admit fear; I happen to be quite good enough at boxing to be able to take care of myself, and I was sureall the more from his continuing to lie therethat such a despicable bully must be a coward.

"I was crimped by you and your drunken bullies," he said, sternly.

Johna brutal bully, who in fact was the real author of the disturbance was about entering into a long harangue, when the captain cut him short, and made him confess, irrespective of circumstances, that he had been in the fray.

He shall pay for the blood-shed, my guestes shall take no wrong; mine Host will spend his Cruse as franke as an Emperor; welcome, my brave bullies. Ser.

On horseback, there were six Mexicans, nominally cattle-drivers going to California, but really guards for the expeditionthe most courageous bullies that could be picked up in Santa , each armed with pistols and a rifle.

The man showed himself the cowardly bully that he was.

Both boys were heartily sorry for what had happened, the more so for the reason that at the very instant that both crestfallen bullies were scrambling to their feet the hotel door opened and several of the guests came out to ascertain the cause of the trouble.

'We desire no war!'" Probably there is no better way to incite a ferocious bully than to tell him that his opponent is weak, unprepared and afraid.

Respected institutions and reputations did indeed waver and collapse on many sides: though the chief of the states replied worthily to a bribe from the foreign bully, many other politicians were sufficiently wild and weak, though doubtless patriotic in intention.

George Cannon would have been well served, whatever his situation in the house, for he was one of those genial bullies who are adored by the menials whom they alternately cajole and terrorize.

"That's a hell of a thing for a man to pack," the giant bully cried nastily, "and it's a hell of a lady that gives it to a man to pack!"

" BOB'ADIL, an ignorant, shallow bully, thoroughly cowardly, but thought by his dupes to be an amazing hero.

" "But, Excellency," whined the fellow who only ten minutes ago had been such an insulting bully, "I shall lose my position.

But it is seldom remembered that the Puritans were in their day emphatically intellectual bullies, that they relied swaggeringly on the logical necessity of Calvinism, that they bound omnipotence itself in the chains of syllogism.

That man is an intolerable bully.

I issued practically all that remained of our rations, a little bully, a little biscuit and a very little tea.

For the elemental basis of its prosperity and its amenities continued just as though the lunatic bullies of Potsdam had never dictated to Vienna the ultimatum for Serbia.

'T wun't pay to scringe to England: will it pay To fear thet meaner bully, old "They'll say"? Suppose they du say: words are dreffle bores, But they ain't quite so bad ez seventy-fours.

Take one of your rough ones, and I for one set him down as a mere bully, that hides his cowardice under blustering words.

As the naturalist, with laborious care, defines the characteristics of the ugly insect, buzzing, and stinging, and preying on the weaker, so must the writer give a portion of his attention to the microscopic bully, braggart, and boasting coward of the human species.

This would-be patrician was a pedantic, swaggering bully, who, it was evident, entertained high notions of his importance, and owned, perhaps, large possessions,in a word, he was an American aristocrat, and the description I have given is a fair one of his class in the south.

Both he and Verrocchio's David, also upstairs, are young tournament nobles rather than shepherd lads who have slung a stone at a Philistine bully.

But what I found it difficult to understand, and still more difficult to accept, was that, during her year abroad, she had been so haunted with a secret dread of that hideous after-death that she had finally revolted and tried to recover that clearer state of mind she had enjoyed before the religious bully had stunned heryet had tried in vain.

Koyanagi, the reputed bully of the capital, was one of them, and paraded himself with the conscious pride of superior size and strength.

39 adjectives to describe  bully