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"ref": "1913, Ralph Stock, Marama: a tale of the South Pacific, page 138",
"text": "Neither of us has very much to lose, but a bully — especially a bullier of women — must be a coward",
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"ref": "1931, Elizabeth, Father",
"text": "she looked upon Miss Ollier as a bullier of brothers, as a house-tyrant",
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"ref": "1946, The Atlantic, volume 178",
"text": "I knew him from previous cases as a heckler, a bullier of witnesses.",
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"ref": "1957, Joan Gerstad, The jungle was our home",
"text": "'Suppose Master he no stop here. You hear me talk. Now go shoot pigeon?' I snarled. As I walked away I heard him murmur, 'Yes, sir Missus.' I did not like myself. I was a fishwife and a bullier of natives, I told myself in disgust.",
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