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In the midst of rowdyism and ragging of the most foolish description, I remained quite alone, and it is quite possible that these frivolities formed a protecting hedge round my inmost soul, which needed time to grow to its natural strength and not be weakened by reaching maturity too soon. My life seemed to break up in all directions; I had to leave St.
He knew that the kind of man who in his own back garden wears good clothes and spoils them with a bad hat is not the kind of man who has an abstract horror of illegal actions of violence or the evasion of the police. But a man may understand ragging and yet be very far from understanding religious ragging.
"Do you remember writing a par about Stickney, the butter-scotch man, you know, ragging him when he got his peerage?" "Yes." It was one of the best paragraphs I had ever done. A two-line thing, full of point and sting. I had been editing "On Your Way" that day, Fermin being on a holiday and Gresham ill; and I had put the paragraph conspicuously at the top of the column.
Ragging, practical jokes, ingenious hoaxes, that once were wont to set England in a roar, were a lost art. His undergraduate guests combated these charges fiercely. His criticisms they declared unjust and without intelligence. "You're talking rot!" said his dutiful nephew. "Take Phil here, for example. I've roomed with him three years and I can testify that he has never opened a book.
"The mad girl has sent us three telegrams," said Mrs. Kent, "in which there was only one sensible thing, the reference to yourself. Her other remarks, about cooks and soccer and injured limbs, were quite over our heads." With a dull sense of pain Blair felt Kathleen's bright eyes on him. "Yes, Mr. Blair, is she ragging us?
But I'm no good at it. I'm not 'fraid not really but I just hate it. You like it, don't you?" Robert swaggered a little. "Rather." There was a moment's silence, "I say if you like it would you mind licking Dickson Minor for me? He's always ragging me you see, I've a rotten time because of my hair, and about playing the piano. Dickson's the worst.
They had finished their study, and were engaged in the diverting and pleasant exercise of ragging each other. Seldom had Barry found occasion to call upon Major Bustead, with whom he had been unable to establish anything more than purely formal relations. A message, however, from the orderly room to Lieutenant Cameron, which he undertook to deliver, brought him to the senior major's hut.
"Why don't you take the holiday?" "What? Not turn up on Friday!" "Yes. I'm not going to." Neville-Smith stopped and stared. Wyatt was unmoved. "You're what?" "I simply sha'n't go to school." "You're rotting." "All right." "No, but, I say, ragging barred. Are you just going to cut off, though the holiday's been stopped?" "That's the idea." "You'll get sacked." "I suppose so.
Then something, which came through the air like a Whitehead Torpedo, sent him spinning backwards on the grass. There was a moment of silence. The ball pitched fair and square on the top bar, and then trickled gently between the posts. A howl of joy went up from the small fry who had been "ragging" Tim all the time. Tim sat up and looked about him.
Archie at once loosed a tremendous kick at his back. "Get up, you dirty swine! Haven't you any manners? Stand up when you are talking to gentlemen." Rudd had a short temper; he let out and caught Mansell on the chin. It is no fun ragging a man who doesn't lose his temper. But, as far as Mansell was concerned, proceedings were less cordial after this.
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