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The thought that he was harrying one of the Thorntons overbore any consideration he felt for his daughter, even if he stopped to think that her affection was anything except the silliness of childhood.

From The Ramrodders A Novel by Day, Holman

He had told Stillford that he would harry her; he was harrying her to his heart's content—and to a very soreness in hers.

From Helena's Path by Hope, Anthony

The big master-mechanic had a round-house foreman "on the carpet" and was harrying him like the dickens for letting an engine go out with one of her truck safety chains hanging loose.

From The Wreckers by Lynde, Francis

And it would all end in a breathless chase after Max, through field after field where the little wretch was harrying either sheep or cows, with the dear poet, hoarse with shouting, at his heels.

From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Here and there a half-domestic pig was harrying one with thrusting snout.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick