Plummer was a miserable drunkard, a profane
swearer, and a savage monster.
A powerful big voice had Peg Barney, an' a hard
swearer he was whin sober.
I told him, "that in the kingdom of Tribnia, (3) by the natives called Langdon, (4) where I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk of the people consist in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers, prosecutors, evidences,
swearers, together with their several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under the colours, the conduct, and the pay of ministers of state, and their deputies.
I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was 'Would God it were evening!' It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted
swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.
How the virtuous servant, Cly, was his friend and partner, and was worthy to be; how the watchful eyes of those forgers and false
swearers had rested on the prisoner as a victim, because some family affairs in France, he being of French extraction, did require his making those passages across the Channel--though what those affairs were, a consideration for others who were near and dear to him, forbade him, even for his life, to disclose.
Swearer, Daniel O'Donnell and Marko Liias are included.
Similar views are found in Tibetan Buddhist community, where a "great majority of Tibetan monastics and lay people do not consider themselves capable of apprehending the exact nature of that which is embodied in a receptacle after consecration, they do possess some intuition that there is something sacred present there." (Cabezon and Geshe Thubten Tendar, 138) Donald
Swearer observes that though modern Buddhologists such as "Eckel, Trainor and Kinnard do not definitively clarify the meaning of the claim that the Buddha is present in relics, images and other material signs, none interprets presence in a literal, physical sense" (
Swearer, 2004: 113).
"Bad Things Happening." The sparks that galvanized researchers into exploring the whys and wherefores of modern-day school bullying originated from the trauma of school suicides and shootings (Espelage &
Swearer, 2004; Smith, 2004; Smith & Brain, 2000).
Additionally, The Handbook of Bullying in Schools: An International Perspective (Jimerson,
Swearer, & Espelage, 2009) provides a comprehensive overview of bullying and victimization at school.
The socio-ecological model of bullying (
Swearer & Esplange, 2004), based on the ecological systems model of Bronfenbrenner (1977), is able to account for many of these theoretical positions.
Espelage and
Swearer (2003) and Long and Pellegrini (2003), for example, describe bullying as a continuum of complex behaviors, with shifting fluidity, whereby bullies and victims exchange roles.