It really is very provoking, to a woman of my generation.

He really was a most provoking man, and quite the most interesting one she had ever met.

"Do you know, the most provoking thing of all is that they don't even have any idea why we want their little dirt ball."

At any rate, he had been most provoking, rude and self-involved.

"That's very provoking, now," said Jack, rubbing the point of his nose.

He really was the most provoking man alive, taunting her this way, Whitney thought with a smile.

"I have never met a more provoking man."

Pomp doubled and turned in a most provoking way.

"You really are a most provoking child," she went on, not caring that Ana's eyes had slitted, almost like a cat's.

It is, I think, the most provoking loch I ever fished.

No doubt the most provoking formal element is Huo's amazing imagery.

"He's the most provoking thing--they always mean something very deep, and I can never puzzle out what it is.

A very provoking book to the curiosity of young men of genius, but a very unsatisfactory one.

"Because-well, just because," was her provoking answer.

'Oh, she is the most provoking creature.

It attacks a duke as readily as a policeman, and with the most provoking airs of condescension.

And nothing could be sweeter than My temper, till the Ghost began Some most provoking criticism.

-- It was most provoking.

A Most Provoking Girl.

'You are the most provoking child!'

All her provoking ambiguity came straight out through the camera on the dance floor, in close-up, even in the housewife's drab bathrobe!

Granted, it had worked, and they were in a hurry, but even so, there were times when Artoo's overbearing ways were most provoking.

"It's most provoking," said Bertie; "of course, we can back both horses, but it would be much more satisfactory to have all our money on the winner.

In private, he could be seen at his best and afford amusement by "say[ing] the most provoking things with a laughing gaiety".

It is very provoking," continued the An, "for she whom I love has certainly courted no one else, and I cannot but think she likes me.

In some ways, he might have provoked the whole thing.

But the case has provoked action in Congress to change the law.

For the moment, he was doing nothing to provoke them.

Who is he, to be provoked by one of us?

I'd even provoked them once before, and all they did was run away.

I wanted to see what happened if he was provoked.

But why did she always have to provoke him so?

Would he turn on her if she provoked him too much?

So do not now provoke me to say anything more.

Not the kind of interest I ever wanted to provoke.

It was not clear whether he had done anything to provoke them.

Her questions often provoke me to add or change things.

Now I can think for there's no one to provoke me here.

He has the sense that she is trying to provoke him.

The last thing he wanted to do was provoke this man.

I should know better than to let him provoke me like that, he thought.

For the first time it was me who provoked the break in a relationship.

He made the move to provoke us because there was no other way out for him.

They were less likely to do anything if no one was there to see or provoke them.

Men are easily provoked, even just by looking at women.

John tried to question her once more, but found it difficult to provoke a response.

If his words were designed to provoke, they seemed to have little or no effect.

She was beyond the pain of words and would not be provoked.

They said it would almost certainly provoke a response in Washington.

The report did not say what provoked the officer to fire.