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Example sentences for "goaded"

Lexicographically close words:
gnothi; gnus; goa; goad; goading; goadings; goads; goal; goalkeeper
  1. She began to trot down the road after him waving her stocking at his distant back and emitting a series of shrill shrieks, goaded by the exigencies of the situation.

  2. Presently I heard faintly in the distance the peculiar cry of a Roman bullock driver, as he goaded on his sluggish team.

  3. Calchas in his bonds was not more in earnest than Eleazar in his breastplate; but the zeal that brought peace to the one, goaded the other into a restless energy of defiance, which amounted in itself to torture.

  4. And being a slave," she resumed, "you may be loaded and goaded like a mule!

  5. The thought goaded her into action, and she passed rapidly on; nevertheless, in that one glance around, the fair and gorgeous picture stamped itself for ever on her brain.

  6. Soon the image of Esca, chained and prostrate, passed before her, and the remembrance of her odious bargain goaded her into the bitterest hatred once more.

  7. Goaded by their taunts, Euchenor made a rapid feint, and crouched for another dash.

  8. But the pain only goaded her into action, and she raised the still kneeling girl with a kindly gesture, and a reassuring smile.

  9. There were also a few houses of loyalist refugees; implacable Tories, stalwart men, revengeful, and goaded by the memory of many wrongs done and many suffered, who proved the worst enemies of their American kinsfolk.

  10. The fierce and hardy frontiersmen were goaded to anger by them, and were ready to take part in, or at least to connive at, any piece of lawless retaliation.

  11. The Chickamaugas were the leaders, but there were among them a few Creeks, and they were also joined by some of the Cherokees proper, goaded to anger by the encroachments of the whites on their lands.

  12. Yet they were a race in whose bone and blood the spirit of free thought was bred; the impulse which had goaded them to reject the Roman dogmas was quick within them still, and revolt against the ecclesiastical yoke was certain.

  13. Not content with this, Mather goaded his congregation into frenzy from the pulpit.

  14. She supposed he referred to his bridal tour, and the thought that when they next met he would be Brunella Carew's husband, goaded her to hope that such torture might be averted by seeing him no more.

  15. The thought was unutterably bitter, and it goaded her, aided her in the ordeal.

  16. From city to city I wandered in quest of fame and money, both so essential to the accomplishment of my scheme; a scheme that goaded me sleeping and waking, leaving no moment of repose.

  17. Nothing had gone right, and the indignant woman paced the floor goaded by her agitating thoughts until the footsteps of her offending son were heard entering his room.

  18. It had goaded her long for one so young, and many times she had struggled to resist its power, but it proved stronger than her will.

  19. Goaded by my suspicions I rushed into the presence of my mother with that mysterious paper burning in my hand!

  20. I have been twice goaded and lifted out of myself into a state that astonished me almost as much as the audience.

  21. I read to her, and goaded him to madness.

  22. The intolerable injustice of vituperating the bribed to an assembly of bribers, has goaded their sense of justice beyond endurance.

  23. As for the latter, it is well known that the most dangerous fighter is the strong but peaceably- disposed man who has been goaded to desperation by long- continued insult and injustice.

  24. Then I turned to the northern province of Chih-li where official hands, instead of restraining, actually guided and goaded the maddened rioters.

  25. But the Turkish idea of government remained unchanged, and in twenty years' time Russia was fairly goaded into another war.

  26. At last some one spoke, unable to control his goaded curiosity.

  27. One of the men, more impatient than the rest, and goaded by four days' drought, swam ashore and was drowned, without any being able to help him.

  28. But with the tightening of the grip the bay started as if goaded by a vicious double rasp of the spurs, swerved violently, shaking his head till the chains rattled, then plunging to right and left he sprang forward at a gallop.

  29. Goaded by their sting he leaned forward, one arm thrust out, and for the first time La Mothe saw the deathly pallor of his face.

  30. But though he spoke with a return of the banter which goaded the unfortunate Beaufoy almost to madness, his eyes were keenly alert and there was no smile in the mockery.

  31. But her sense of the comic in her companion's tactics survived, and set her off in an apparently inconsequent laugh, which goaded Lady Engleton into retreating further, to an encampment of pure orthodoxy.

  32. I suspect she wanted to steal chickens or something," Hadria was goaded into suggesting, and the interview ended painfully.

  33. Under his rapacious tyranny the people were goaded to fury.

  34. Please God, Theobald's mission will be accomplished ere 'tis too late; the French will come to our succour before we are goaded to despair.

  35. It was unwise, considering what lay at the bottom of her heart, to have goaded the damsel as she had done.

  36. But it did not humble him, it only galled and goaded him, and quickened his determination to prove himself a man for a' that; it strengthened his haughtiness and self-reliance.

  37. I don't want to say any more,' rejoined the goaded locksmith.

  38. All consideration, reflection, mercy, forbearance; everything by which a goaded man can curb his rage and passion; fled from him as he turned back.

  39. His fawning secretary had played the traitor; and he whose weakness had been goaded and urged on by so many for their own purposes, was desolate and alone.

  40. At times, goaded on by maddening pain, she charged the line, but only to be driven back foiled and disheartened.

  41. Still, his fierce heart throbbed violently; and there was a feeling of hot agonizing doubt blent with the truculent hope, the savage ambition, the strong thirst of blood, which goaded him almost to madness.

  42. While others, goaded by the success of their acquaintances, have been thrown off their balance and have worked themselves to death in fever, he has gone on his way calm and unheeding.

  43. He knows all sensations, and there was no greatness in any of them; all have goaded him, none have exalted him or raised him above himself.

  44. In the one case, ignorant and degraded--goaded by the memory of the past, stung by the present, and driven to desperation by the fearful looking for of wrongs for ever to come.


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