His querulous tone provoked me.

The whispered laugh died; but its tones provoked a weird hollowness within the moving taxi.

Killashandra repressed a second facetious remark which Pirinio's tone provoked.

His cool tone, Spock thought, would surely provoke McCoy into a rant.

The film opened with a warning from a group committed to combating white slavery, but the film's sensationalist tone provoked controversy.

There was a woman of charming vivacity, whose eyes were ever ready for laughter, and whose tone of address of itself provoked the noblest of replies.

Her tone provoked a deep pink flush in Yevir's cheeks.

The tone provoked new terror in King Furzman's evil brain.

His tone was certainly provoking, but, as a general rule, Mary was not easily provoked.

The tone of this article, and the abuse, will provoke a similar response from some posters.