" "He's a beastly bully," added Mugford solemnly; "and bullies always get lickedin books.

"You brutal cowardly bully," shouted Eric; and in another moment he would have sprung upon him.

Then there's the phrase, 'Honour among thieves,' which isn't a very exalted one; or the curious thing, schoolboy honour, which dictates that a boy may know that another boy is being disgracefully and cruelly bullied, and yet is prevented by his sense of honour from telling a master about it.

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.

It is a mistake to conceive Johnson as a monster of bear-like rudeness, shouting down opposition, hectoring his companions, and habitually a blustering verbal bully.

By one of those frequently fascinating chances of geography, this little nation, which has a territory about as big as Ohio, is set squarely in front of the main gate to Constantinople, and saw, in consequence, the powers which ruthlessly bullied it yesterday now almost at its feet.

Except when specially bullied by the cavalierewho greatly enjoyed tormenting him in publicBaldassare was inoffensive and useful.

When he first came, he had been one of the most natural butts for Barker's craving ill-nature, and for a time he had been tremendously bullied.

Neuve Chapelle had been literally flailed with the high explosive projectiles of the new British artillery, which the British had to make after the war began in order to compete with what the Germans already had; for poor, lone, wronged, bullied Germany, quite unpreparedAustria with her fifty millions does not countwas fighting on the defensive against wicked, aggressive enemies who were fully prepared.