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Michael Zweiback, an attorney for Altamirano, said his client was defending himself from Mendoza, who he said had been bullying his client for months.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2019

What a blow he had dealt to her conception of him by his instant assumption that a change in her could only mean that Neale had been bullying her.

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

The two deck-hands who had pulled him and Lucetta aboard had disappeared, and the big man who had been bullying Macdougal was at the wheel.

From Stranded in Arcady by Lynde, Francis

He wanted to know if Topsy had been bullying poor Toodles.

From The Helpmate by Sinclair, May

He was scored all over by the tusks of some other hippopotamus that had been bullying him.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Baker, Samuel White, Sir