...A “miners’ meeting,” called on thespot, decided that the dog had sufficient provocation, and Buck was discharged... 
Jack London 「The Call of the Wild」
...Few things are more provocative; and Colonel Bishop's temper was never one that required much provocation...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...The repugnance he felt to come to the point, with him, particularly after this culminating provocation, was puzzling even to himself...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...The only provocation we suffered was from the attacks of the tsetse, or panga (sword) fly, which swarmed here...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
... and without any previous provocation or offence? Does no crime attach to those...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...They think that illness hadbeen waiting for some further slight provocation, and that the previousdays' tramp, which was almost entirely through plashy Bougas or swamps,turned the scale against them...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
... She whipped her slaves without the slightest provocation, and seemed to take delight in inventing new tortures with which to punish them...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle」
...I have heard of many other cases of the BlackBear attacking without any provocation, and from what I know of thebrute I quite believe them; and, after all, the animal is not worthshooting...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Yet, at the back of the humanthroat ever lurks that fool-cry of "Mad dog!"—everready to leap forth into shouted words at thefaintest provocation...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...Some will desert the neston the slightest provocation, while others will cling to it in themost quixotic manner...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...Then there were times when it was inconvenientthat we should know each other, and uponsuch occasions the dogs would not recogniseme even upon the strongest provocation...
Anonymous 「The Confessions of a Poacher」
...To resent an injury, received from a whiteman, though of the lowest rank, and to dare to strike him, though upon thestrongest and grossest provocation, is an enormous crime...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
... But she threw a provocation into her glance as she spoke, which belied her words, and which penetrated even the sodden intellect of poor Blunt...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...The men were all armed, and, without any provocation, two of them had a contest with clubs; at the same time a few blows passed between some of the women...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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