But theragging of the study put this topic entirely in the shade.
If Mill, the dormitory prefect, was awake, the chuckle would make him speak, for Mill was of a suspicious nature, and believed that it was only his unintermitted vigilance which prevented the dormitory ragging all night.
O'Hara began to ask himself bitterly what was the use ofragging at all if this was how it was received.
The ragging of the study seems to have been all the active work he did," remarked Clowes.
He was used to their ragging him on account of his willingness to take the easiest way of doing things.
The paper was not wholly given to ragging and joking, but in a serious corner we discussed aspects of Kut and the Trek and Kastamuni and the war.
We have been ragging him by suggesting his field-glasses must be faulty, and asking to see them.
Among the men there is, of course, a good deal of ragging and general barracking about our not being relieved, but their spirit and patience and trust in their general is truly magnificent.
It is the first duty of a chairman, even the president of the Oxford Union, to meet his ragging with cheerfulness and a ready reply, and the first duty of all debaters is to be interesting as well as convincing.
Such ragging as the chair administers and receives may not aid greatly in rational debate, but it certainly has its value as a preparation for the shifts and formalities of parliamentary life.
Just as the system of breakfasting freshmen is by no means as altruistic as it at first appears, the practice of ragging is by no means as brutal.
That's Netta's fault; she starts all the ragging and throws it on to Gwen.
Ragging Miss Gascoyne" was a favourite pastime of hers, and one which afforded much sport to her applauders, if not to the victim of her jokes.
So that he escaped the ragging he would have had to undergo at Wrykyn in similar circumstances.
The ragging of prefects is of very much the same order.
If a prefect is found playing the ass, ragging in the studies, or cutting lock up, he would be neither lined nor beaten; but the twenty minutes interview with the Chief would be far worse than any caning.
Now the raggingof masters is a very specialised art.
Such raggingis very different from the general rag of the complete incompetent.
He has always understood that most of the ragging takes place in the dormitories.
It is during this period that a boy gets through the majority of his ragging in form.
He remembers vividly being beaten for ragging in the dormitories; it is not so long since he was a fag.
But Flannagan was larger and heavier than himself, and a direct assault could only end in defeat; so for a fortnight he stood the ragging without complaint, and nursed his grievance in silence.
But Torps, as they called him, was an excellent fellow, and took the ragging all in good part.
I think we ought to report this ragging business to the colonel," said a supercilious senior to old Major Tartan next morning.
These ragging affairs were great or small according to the mental and physical fitness of the unfortunates.
Spud, having experienced the usual ragging affairs, was now a full-fledged confidant of the older hands.
Before dealing with the drilling of Spud on the barrack square I must not forget to record his first ragging affair.
Life and Letters of the Honourable Charles Sumner (The).
The miners flock to them, and they can dictate terms.
British constitution isn't much use to a man when you are set on ragging him.
There was a fellow in my parish, when I first went there, who thought he'd be perfectly safe in ragging me because he knew I was a parson.
Lord Salisbury's instructions to Sir William White for the Conference.
To the hectorings of Russian agents the "peasant State" offered an ever firmer resistance, and by the summer of 1885 it was clear that bribery and bullying were equally futile.
Gambetta and General Trochu, Governor of Paris, were each elected nine times over.
A careful perusal of the original despatch from Ems shows that the negotiation, far from being "still pending," was clearly described as having been closed on that matter.
We discovered after a while that he was sensitive because you didn't come when he asked you, and we quit ragging him about it.
How well I remember ragging with him in choir practices!
It seems but yesterday that we three were ragging together in the swimming baths, of which both these chaps were great habitués.
He knew his chums were just ragging him, as they always did about his appetite, but he could never resist the temptation to argue with them, and protest that there was nothing abnormal about his capacity for food.
Coming down here ragging after the boatraces and paying nothing.
If he makes any noise here I'll bring down Seymour and we'll give him a ragging worse than they gave Clive Kempthorpe.
You must keep your end up in a place like this, or everybody in the house'll be ragging you.
I'm not going to have any of Appleby's crew coming into Seymour's and ragging studies.
They were still disorderly, but in a lesser degree; and ragging became a matter of private enterprise among the fags instead of being, as it had threatened to be, an organised revolt against the new head.
I made myself comfortable on a grassy slope and proceeded to take the engine down.
Decidedly this hour was not going very comfortably, and no alleviation was possible, for it was somehow quite hopeless to think of ragging Maddox; it was also very nearly hopeless to translate this unknown passage.
As he walked, he said to himself that he was heartily sick of this Oxford life, ragging and all.
In the ordinary man of the world, such an incident as the Marmion ragging of a foreign lad, who had offended the prejudices of a few insolent and lordly Englishmen, would have merely stirred a jest.
I hear there has been a disgraceful amount of raggingin Marmion lately, and that Douglas Falloden--can you conceive it?
There's been a deal of ragging in this college lately, sir.
I believe Mademoiselle thought you were ragging her!
I meant to stop their ragging if I had to go round and box all their ears.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ragging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
