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    goad


    1. Was he really going to let a naked savage goad him into acting like this? Was this the only way he could get her to understand they knew better? What was he trying to prove now, that we are humans just looking for our offspring? Just like you but with a different vehicle? Here in the android he felt less biological than he did in his own space


    2. Desperate to save her, Alec continued trying to goad the elf into helping Nathalia, quickly intervening


    3. Why is he trying to goad me into giving up? Does he want me to fail?


    4. 25 How can he get wisdom who holds the plough, and he who gloried in the goad, that drives oxen, and is occupied in their labours,


    5. 31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which killed of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad, and he also delivered Israel


    6. Now is a good time to goad him


    7. If he had hoped to goad the other man, his hope was thwarted


    8. She wasn’t sure why she wanted to goad Zoe but she couldn’t help herself


    9. I was trying to goad him, hoping he’d make a statement against self-interest in the presence of two law enforcement officers


    10. What is worse, their arthic greed has come to goad them to abuse their positions for self-aggrandizement

    11. But, sharing his disappointment, his mother thought it fit to goad him to turn to Ruma’s father for additional doles


    12. Disturbed by their proclivities, Rama Rao breathed down their necks to goad them to their B grades


    13. The purpose is to goad you into making some necessary financial changes


    14. It was not because of any logical reasoning process that Conan remained motionless, since reason might have told him—since he was doomed anyway – to goad the snake into striking and get it over with; it was the blind black instinct of self-preservation that held him rigid as a statue blasted out of iron


    15. Gerald could goad any opponents into blind rage with his off the cuff racist and bigoted comments


    16. However, sometimes they will persist in trying to goad


    17. I have you trying to goad me into


    18. Obeast, the biggest of the trolls but no less a kid for all that, was the first to try to goad a car into attacking him


    19. When Sandhya came out from bath, Roopa tried to goad him into the bathroom, but as he insisted that he would be the last to go, she went in there disappointed


    20. ‘Oh, I thought I needed to goad you into it,’ he pulled them towards himself

    21. While I felt that something in me snapped, she said it was time that I got married and became a father, when she told me to court a suitable dame, I said that I was unlucky in love; she said that she knew a girl, who would be an ideal wife for me, and as if to goad me to her candidate, she said the dame had a rare sex appeal to eroticize the romantic in me; she said that the girl was not privy to her double life and even if she came to know about it, she was sure she would be sympathetic towards her


    22. Lamed is a cattle goad, or a staff


    23. A wife who is not a wife and who yet persists in looking as if she were one, can be nothing but a goad and a burden for an honest man


    24. Libby responded to the goad without thinking


    25. Seeing that he didn’t have a comrade to goad


    26. She didn't want to goad him into talking about specifics; she just wanted to know whether anything was wrong


    27. Lot would only have sat on the bloody things and used them to goad Uthyr with


    28. “Bad call, Annie,” Phil said, “I was trying to goad her into retaliating, but now you’ve blown it


    29. On 11/1/2010 I found this on the web by Steven Clark Goad, church of Christ Christian Ekklesia Podcast: ―In summation, isn‘t it strange indeed that false teachers have taken a ―real place‖ (Gehenna) referred to by Jesus himself


    30. Haakon wanted to goad him,

    31. Punishment?" I have been unable to find a copy of his book but found this about it by Steven Clark Goad in ―church of


    32. On 11/1/2010 I found this on the web by Steven Clark Goad, church of Christ Christian


    33. his book but found this about it by Steven Clark Goad in “church of Christ Christian Podcast


    34. Punishment?” Steven Clark Goad said this booklet by Moses E


    35. Steven Clark Goad, “Thoughts on Punishment of the Wicked,” church of Christ


    36. Goad in “church of Christ Christian Podcast


    37. Goad said this booklet by Moses E


    38. Steven Clark Goad, “Thoughts on Punishment of the Wicked” church of


    39. On 11/1/2010 I found this on the web by Steven Clark Goad, church of Christ Christian Ekklesia


    40. On 11/1/2010 I found this on the web by Steven Clark Goad, church of Christ Christian Ekklesia Podcast: “In summation, isn’t it strange indeed that false teachers have taken a “real place” (Gehenna) referred to by Jesus himself as a metaphor of destruction and have changed in (? it) into another made up/fabricated “real place” (hell) where souls (spirits, living beings, whatever) will be tortured unendingly by a loving heavenly Father? If Gehenna is a metaphor of “hell” as it is traditionally taught, isn’t it a poor one, for Gehenna (the Jerusalem city dump of Jesus’ era) was a real place of destruction and consummation with no torment and no torture involved, while “hell” is a made up place of torment and torture with no destruction at all? Is this twisted thinking the height of misguided thinking?” “Thoughts on Punishment of the Wicked” at:

    41. How astounding the fact that so many should serve for such a reward!" Commentary on Romans from “The Restoration Library” page 218, 1875, Gospel Light Publishing Company, and also his book "Do The Holy Scriptures Teach The Endlessness Of Future Punishment?" I have been unable to find a copy of his book but found this about it by Steven Clark Goad in “church of Christ Christian Podcast


    42. Lard, 1879, “Do the Holy Scriptures Teach the Endlessness of Future Punishment?” Steven Clark Goad said this booklet by Moses E


    43. The latter two or three times attempted to ask where they were taking him to and what they wanted, but the instant he began to open his lips they threatened to close them with the points of their lances; and Sancho fared the same way, for the moment he seemed about to speak one of those on foot punched him with a goad, and Dapple likewise, as if he too wanted to talk


    44. the incitation’s of instinct, and palpably delivered up to the goad of


    45. `Every time he comes here he tries to goad me into doing or saying something that would give him an excuse to tell me to clear out


    46. There is, I feel in the words, some goad of the flesh driving him into a new passion, a darker shadow of the first, darkening even his own understanding of himself


    47. Louisa then, taking and holding the fine handle that so invitingly offered itself, led the ductile youth, by that mastertool of his, as she stept backward towards the bed; which he joyfully gave way to, under the incitations of instinct, and palpably delivered up to the goad of desire


    48. The strategy among the lawyers was to file suit, drag Krull Mining into court, goad the company and its lawyers into telling a bunch of lies under oath, then produce the documents for the judge and jury to enjoy


    49. Something was driving him, driving him with a cruel goad, but she did not understand what it was


    50. "This is what I am thinking of; and that is what I might have been thinking of," was the bitter incessant murmur within him, making every difficulty a double goad to impatience





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    Synonyms for "goad"

    goad prod goading prodding spur spurring urging needle prick

    "goad" definitions

    a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion


    a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something


    give heart or courage to


    urge with or as if with a goad


    stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick


    annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism