Which preposition to use with bullying
"How many clams have you crucifide to-day?" "Bully for you, ole man.
"I say, but it was bully of you girls to come to meet us!" shouted Ferd Stowing, as they came within hailing distance.
This polite word of theirs was first borrowed from the bullies in Whitefriars, then fell among the footmen, and at last retired to the pedants.'
" Immediately the unwilling permission for them to do as they pleased had been given, the men set about making ready for the advance as if each moment was of the greatest value, and in an incredibly short time after General Herkimer had been bullied into agreeing to that which his better judgment told him to be wrong, the company was ready for the march.
" My object in riting to you, great Conkeror of the man whose son was so bully at pickin' up bullocks, is to congratulate you.
And when the time came, the princess went out, and the bully with her down to the shore, and when they got there what did he do, but to tie the princess to a tree, the way the serpent would be able to swallow her easy with no delay, and he himself went and hid up in an ivy-tree.
Those who have for a time infested the publick walks with their insults, quickly disturb them with their lamentations, and are soon reduced from bullies to beggars, and obliged to solicit alms from those they used to threaten and insult.
He had determined that his life should be all holidays for the future; that he wouldn't get up till he liked, or stand the bullying of the Doctor any more; and made a hundred such day-dreams and resolves for the future.
I didn't like the manthere was too great a suggestion of the bully about him, but for all that I preferred him to McMurtrie.
It is impossible to suppose that some of the charges of ill-treatment of Germans by the British are more than the squeals of the bully on feeling the pinch.
A broad-backed, big-headed Cape Cod boy, about sixteen, had been playing the bully over a slender, delicate-looking boy from one of the Boston schools.
"The man in his way seems as great a bully as his brother.
Now speaks my bully like a gentleman of worth.
Don't be argued into things, or bullied out of them.
"We'll try that!" Vigors had gained his assumed authority more by bullying than fighting; others had submitted to him without a sufficient trial.
The touch of bullying in his tone put my back up at once.
The next mornin', however, when we got up we found a bully pinto pony tied to one of our tent stakes.
He was bland and bullying by turns; affable and gruff; jocose and solemnalways what he thought their fainting spirits needed.
I hope you'll be lenient for once, for really I've had a thorough bullying for my sins.
Eric could not, and would not, brook his bullying with silence.
No sooner did Jack put his face upon the stage than a great clamour arose, and it was decreed by the bullies among the audience (of whom there are ever a few in every house), that no play should be presented until the culprit had publicly begged pardon for a sin which he never committed.
" A perusal of these laws shows that they are immensely inferior to the Roman law, which not only gave the wife full control of her property, but protected her from coercion and bullying on the part of the husband.
After a policy of bullying towards France for forty-four years, Germany has discovered during the course of the war that France is the cat's-paw of Russia and Great