"Bullyrag" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you now. When I think how I let you lord it over my ship! Do you remember how you used to bullyrag me about my coat and your bridge? It was in his way. His bridge! 'And I won't be a party to this—and I couldn't think of doing that.' Honest man! And now it all comes out. 'I am poor, and I can't. I have only this ...
— End of the Tether • Joseph Conrad
... the barney over me and a-makin' that codger of a kinstructor bullyrag me afore all the ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson
... "I shouldn't bullyrag them, sir," interposed Warrington. "They protested. I helped myself. After all, perhaps it was none of my affair; but the poor devils didn't know what ...
— Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath
... for it, I drop books and go off, and leave them alone. I could have stayed down there at the hotel and bothered the landlord into taking my book. He'd have too it, because everybody that sees this book, and understands it, does take it; but I said, 'Why bullyrag the life out of the poor man when there's a missionary sale going on in town, and he don't want a book, and I do want to see the sale? I am ...
— Kilo - Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt Book Agent • Ellis Parker Butler
... BULLYRAG, TO. To reproach contemptuously, and in a hectoring manner; to bluster, to abuse, and to insult noisily. Shakspeare makes mine host of the Garter dub ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth |
