No behaviour, it may be admitted, could be more provoking than this unforeseen reasonableness.
To bring together two such opposites without provoking a collision would be the crowning triumph of Boswell's curiosity.
They had descended the staircase without speaking, for the brave and unreasonable Marquis regretted his strangely provoking attitude of the moment before.
Instead of provoking him immediately in the salon of Villa Steno, he had waited, and another had had time to substitute himself for the one he had wished to chastise.
The sense of ennui, or boredom, which seemed as unknown in the earlier part of the century as it is to the modern German, became strongly developed, and prose was much improved by the fear of provoking it.
After a familiar conversation with a waiter at a tavern, you overhear him calling you by someprovoking nickname.
Is not this a species of sober madness more provoking than the real?
She evaded provoking them whenever possible; and as much as possible led him by his affection.
There was always something of the overgrown, provokingchild in him, when he wanted to bear down an opinion or feeling that displeased him.
Her vision of the family likeness is blurred by the intrusion of provoking little points of difference.
There is another much more significant form of chaperonage in English business circles, of which it is difficult to speak without provoking hostility.
The provoking action of their English cousins only served to arouse the national spirit.
His patience was sorely tried, for when the ship reached the dreaded Sargasso Sea her onward progress was checked for many a weary day by the provoking seaweed which held her fast.
It was, indeed, provoking to see the rascal escaping before our very sight.
The only provoking part of the business was, that the pirate would in all probability get away with impunity.
It was very provoking to have Sandgate almost within one's very grasp, and yet not to have the power of punishing him.
Jonas raised himself slowly from his work, and stared at the speaker, as he answered with provoking slowness, "Where's who?
It was to him a most provoking accident, on many accounts, but he supposed he must submit to at least a week's confinement, as the medical man considered it his only chance of a speedy recovery.
Your eyes are as black and your face as white, and altogether you are quite as provoking as ever in never telling one anything that one wishes to know.
But it is manifestly difficult to interpret their motives with any assurance, and it is more likely they were provoking them to flight.
It is to these he lifts his eyes, from these he receives his inspiration, for they are ethereal and opalescent and play upon his fancy, provoking him to subtle thoughts of the Ideal, rose-colored as themselves.
He accordingly resolved upon a course, which he thought might cure the evil without provoking a dispute.
Friend Hopper's quickness in slipping through loop-holes, and dodging round corners, rendered him exceedingly troublesome and provoking to slaveholders.
During the nine years that I lived with him, I never saw him lose his balance but twice; and then it was only for a moment, and under very provoking circumstances.
From that time the knights of the two orders never met without provoking each other to the combat most of the Franks and Christians always taking a part in the quarrel, some for the order of St. John, others for that of the Temple.
Observing my distress, she begged me to take a seat, and placing herself on the opposite side of the table, she continued to regard me with the most provoking nonchalance.
I soon lost all patience, and began to hallo and shout in the hope of provoking attention.
Nothing could be more tantalizing than this provoking relapse.
It was written at my request,' she replied, with provoking coldness.
Her overflowing spirits, and "the little fiend inside her," were always provoking scrapes, in which her friends were apt to be more or less involved.
For Andrew's sake, then, I'll bear with all her provokingways and words.
Besides, the Commune "far from provoking the 2nd of September did all in its power to prevent it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "provoking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
