...Few things are more provocative; and Colonel Bishop's temper was never one that required much provocation... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...Instead of the French officer, who used the grossest provocation, they have arrested Captain Wolverstone...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...le President, leaving provocation to the gentlemen of the Right...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...The repugnance he felt to come to the point, with him, particularly after this culminating provocation, was puzzling even to himself...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...He must afford no provocation...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...The desperate nature of their whole enterprise instarting for Zanzibar perhaps had accumulated its own stock ofdetermination, and now it found vent under evil provocation...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...The madam grew more irritable and exacting, always finding fault with the servants, whipping them, or threatening to do so, upon the slightest provocation, or none at all...
Louis Hughes 「Thirty Years a Slave」
...She whipped her slaves without the slightest provocation, andseemed to take delight in inventing new tortures with which to punishthem...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States」
...It is not likely that there will be international complications, although the provocation must at times be keen...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...Repeated provocation will, however,excite and revenge...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
...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」
..."I think it would be more a provocation than arestraint, captain...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
...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」
...Donkeys haveoften been known after enduring great provocation from boysto turn on their assailants and put them to speedy andanxious flight...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Motion on your part may bring him nearer to investigate; andyou can never know at what slight provocation the red danger light willblaze into his eyes...
William J. Long 「Wood Folk at School」
...In one group oftribes the headman is forbidden to eat in a strange village, andunder no provocation whatever may he utter a word of abuse...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...There could be little doubt that the convictshad been the aggressors, though the man who returned stronglydenied having given any kind of provocation...
Arthur Phillip 「The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay」
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