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'I wish Schwartzkoff had kept you up in Apia, you murderous, yellow-hided scoundrel! 'What's the use of bully-ragging him? remarked the plantation engineer, with a sarcastic laugh; 'he doesn't understand a word you say. Hallo, look at that! Why, he's kissing Pulu's toe! * Whip. Burton laughed. 'So he is. 'Take care he doesn't bite it off. Pulu shook his mop of yellow hair gravely.
"Confound you and your ring!" said the manager. "What's the good of coming bully-ragging me about your ring? I can't get you your ring! You shouldn't have been fool enough to put it on one of our statues. You make me talk to you like this, coming bothering when I've enough on my mind as it is! Hang it! Can't you see I'm as anxious to get that statue again as ever you can be?
"I start every journey with a stop at Sweetbriar in view, and it seems a long time until I make the haven I assure you, suh. And now for the news. You say my friend, Mrs. Plunkett, is enjoying her usual good health and spirits?" "Well, not to say enjoying of things in general, but it do seem she has got just a little mite of spirit back along of this here bully-ragging of Bob and Louisa Helen.
"Well," says Hank, sort o' backing up as the big man come nearer and nearer to him, jest natcherally bully-ragging him with them eyes, "I got none of them there complaints." The doctor he kind o' snarls, and he brings his hand down hard on Hank's shoulder, and he says: "There are more things betwixt Dan and Beersheba than was ever dreamt of in thy sagacity, Romeo!"
It is known only to the lesser gods, who keep the celestial "accounts," how many times the swaggering, bully-ragging, brawling, piratical, and murderous human family has swept around this globe. Here and there relics of their status, their growth in the external, material conditions of life are being exhumed, wrung from the faithful clasp of Mother Earth, to excite the wonder of the day and time.
If it does her good to do what Tom calls 'bully-ragging, I can stand it as well as Ruth better, perhaps." "No," said the doctor, gravely. "I have told you before why you shouldn't call there. You have everything that Mercy can possibly desire. Comparisons with poor Mercy certainly are odious. Ruth, she knows, is not so fortunately placed in life as yourself.
It suggests that the widow has the facts on her side to win a clear case, and that the adversary has been bully-ragging his case through by sheer force. There is a strange feature to this parable, which must have a meaning. An utterly godless unscrupulous man is put in to represent God! This is startling. In any other than Jesus it would seem an overstepping of the bounds.
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