In consequence the provocation to thinking may at first be a mere vague shock or disturbance.
Even courts of justice take motives into account and juries have been known to ask for clemency for a murderer because of their keen realization of the provocation which he had undergone.
The provocation of hate is complicated by the fact that it is closely associated with fear.
But under this supreme provocation he yielded to the Aristophanic impulse, and--exit Max in the approved manner of the Folies Bergeres.
So now, in defence of his manners, he urges that what with orders and counter-orders, theprovocation is more than flesh and blood can stand.
They did not know that a Virginian never loses the habit of asking Thomas, Richard, and Henry to call upon him, on the slightest provocation and often without any provocation at all.
The provocation certainly is great, but his mercy is even greater.
One slight provocation had sufficed to draw from its concealment so formidable a multitude.
Sometimes a whole camp will suddenly leave because of some imposition or provocation that may in itself seem slight.
The men will leave their work on the least provocation to spend a few days in debauchery.
Some even went so far as to argue that only a very clever man could afford to be a bear; and I must say that he pushed this conclusion to its farthest limit, showing his temper alike to rich and poor upon no provocation whatever.
It is odd to find a stage wig invested with political significance, viewed almost as a cabinet question, considered as a possible provocation of hostilities between two great nations; yet something of this kind happened some fifty years ago.
The theatres had certainly given in the meantime seriousprovocation to the authorities.
But then she remembered how he had jumped into the water, and determined that, even with such provocationas that, she must not be angry with him.
The woman who could have kept her temper, under such provocation as this, may be found when the mathematician is found who can square the circle, or the inventor who can discover perpetual motion.
But provocation is not an excuse, judged by the rules of discipline.
I doubt not that many innocent persons lost their lives; still, with my knowledge of Indian character, I am not ready to say that provocation was wanting.
But humanity revolts against the butchery of innocent persons, no matter what the color may be, or the cause of provocation of race against race.
I had foreseen that the War of 1812, as a whole, must be flat in interest as well as laborious in execution; and, upon the provocation of other duty, I readily turned from it in distaste.
It is right to add that on the occasion in question not only was the provocation all on the other side, but it was endured by him to the utmost that the standards of 1830 would permit.
There thus ran through our drills an undercurrent of levity, which on provocation would burst out almost spontaneously into absurdity.
Given enough provocation almost any man can go berserk and commit murder.
But the Viking character had let a provocation that merited no more than a rebuke rip his self-control to shreds.
She must have received some fearful provocation to have been driven thus to rid herself of a servant whom, under ordinary circumstances, she might have abruptly discharged.
I was looked upon as a monster who had murdered his wife and made his son deformed;—but the provocation and the circumstances were never mentioned to palliate the enormity of that double crime.
He regretted my precipitation in leaving Mrs. Lambkin until I had written to consult him; but admitted that the provocation in searching my boxes was grave.
Is there any other reason that you didn't regard Oswald as a violent kind of person, other than the one that you mentioned concerning his failure to respond to the provocation of the Cubans?
You have had experience with other pickets here in New Orleans on several questions, and have you run into people who demonstrated a passivity in the face of provocation before?
Murder was punished in all the nations by death, but in Yucatan and Nicaragua if there were extenuating circumstances, such as great provocation or absence of malice, the crime was atoned by the payment of a fine.
These principles, having discarded the idea of legalprovocation from words, have resolved the foundation of their existence into the protection of the person.
Was it such a provocation as, allowing for the disparity of the free and slave condition of men in this country, was well calculated, even in minds tolerably well regulated, to throw a man off his guard and excite a furious anger?
There is no principle of criminal law which will justify or excuse the death that has been caused through the provocation of the passions alone.
In all his intellectual conflicts, whether at the bar, on the hustings or in the Senate, under no provocation was he ever excited to an unseemly exhibition of temper.
Though no republican party, as I have elsewhere observed, could with any propriety be said to exist, it is easy to perceive that a certain degree of provocation from the Crown might have brought one together in no slight force.
Some such provocation as is now offerd to Rhode Island will in all probability be the immediate Occasion of it.
In the heat of anger, no provocation would be weighed--no palliative admitted; and the innocent would perish with the guilty.
It is not to be supposed, however, that provocation ceased, or that the impulse given by four years conflict, could be simultaneously paralysed.
Without provocation to virtue, or elevating example, he naturally shares the Barbarism of the society he keeps.
At first the convicts were unanimous in affirming, that they were quietly picking sweet-tea*, when they were without provocation assaulted by the natives, with whom they had no wish to quarrel.
There is a provocationin success, but there is a worse provocation in ostentatious abstinence.
