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goading
1. My stubborn, bloody-minded goading of him clearly got his gander up
2. Menachem watched benignly as I switched between emotional states, alternately ignoring or goading the guards
3. He was using what was left of Brontes as bait, goading the group to come at him
4. Kay felt as if her fingers would be crushed by Em’s grip, and she prayed with every ounce of her being that the men would not give into this blatant goading
5. They started goading on the spending plans
6. A foolish boy, goading the Reds
7. Manda begged her to stop goading Obeah followers, but Nik believed the controversy was good for the show, and he urged Sierra to milk it for all it was worth
8. But when getting run down by a bicycle delivery man didn’t do it, or being gored on the train, or gashed by a knife – when almost electrocuting herself just changing a light bulb, and even nearly drowning in the East River still didn’t do it, the one misfortune that Sierra considered so awful that it put an instant stop to her goading of Obeah practitioners, was an attack on the part of her body she valued the most
9. goading her into it
10. On the way back, goading her to keep pace with him, he raced down the steps as though to announce his new-found joy to the world at large
11. always there, goading me
12. The goading was a preemptive strike
13. She took to sabotaging his every effort at managing the school, mainly by goading her classes into taking direct action; first boycotting extra-curricular activities and then cutting school altogether
14. goading them into action
15. Two weeks and two days ago after a lot of pleading and goading from Jos, Harold had finally joined the underground
16. Instinctively she reached down to find his struggling balls and squeeze him, goading him on
17. As soon as she got into an auto-rickshaw, she began goading the driver to go in top gear, all the while blaming herself for her predicament, ‘Oh, how stupid! Wasn’t it my idea to receive them at the station that has landed me in this mess? Didn’t they say they would make it on their own even then? But, I insisted on receiving them, didn’t I? Oh, how could I’ve anticipated all this? Was it my fault wanting to see him as he got down from the train? For all my longing, don’t I deserve to see him as he alights? But as luck would have it, I might as well miss the bus
18. ‘Oh, what an attractive woman she is! Won’t she have a curvy frame from head to foot to make her deadly in bed? Oh, what a dame she is! Is there a better lass to possess?’ as he thought, so he gripped her hand ardently goading her passion
19. Sophie smiled at his goading reply, which was a rather disconcerting reaction
20. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself
21. She felt her collective playing at the fringes of her jumbled psyche---no words, no coherency, just blind frenzy---urging her, goading her on
22. And there, on the rear fringe, was where she recognized another voice---louder than all the rest, exhorting her on, goading and gloating
23. Then Ritter resumed his goading
24. I got the sense that Cordus was goading him
25. She had made a mistake with him once by goading him too far, and it had almost cost her her life
26. reaction to Jesus’ reply, and the goading of the Jews
27. They’d had several visits from Grimes, who just told them that her husband may not come and goading the pair to get closer as they could be happy spending the rest of their lives together
28. Have I not been goading you on?”
29. protection or redress from the oppressor, unless she have the plea of bodily fear; yet how many ways are there of goading the soul almost to madness, equally
30. “Have you told Mom?” Michelle asked, getting giddy, her voice a goading hint
31. But within the investigation, we were all in agreement: there would be no goading, no lines in the sand, and no public characterizing of the killer—or killers—until we knew more about who we were dealing with, here
32. What was your motive? Weren't you tempting him to go to her? He didn't, as it turned out, but you were tempting him, goading him to use his power, to bring her over
33. It was sheer frenzy of this sort which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss Turner
34. All was confusion, confusion, in Mitya's soul, but although many things were goading his heart, at that moment his whole being was yearning for her, his queen, to whom he was flying to look on her for the last time
35. “Yes, he’s boasting like a drunkard,” added Nastasia, as though with the sole intention of goading him
36. The cheated are the same eternally deceived, stupid, labouring masses, the same who with their callous hands have built all these ships, and fortresses, and arsenals, and barracks, and guns, and steamboats, and quays, and moles, and all these palaces, halls, and platforms, and triumphal arches; and have set and printed all these newspapers and books; and have secured and brought all those pheasants, and ortolans, and oysters, and wines, which are consumed by all those men, whom they, again, have nurtured and brought up and sustained,—men who, deceiving the masses, prepare the most terrible calamities for them; the same good-natured, stupid masses, who, displaying their sound, white teeth, have grinned in childish fashion, naïvely enjoying the sight of all the dressed-up admirals and presidents, of the flags fluttering above them, the fireworks, the thundering music, and who will hardly have time to look around, when there shall be no longer any admirals, nor presidents, nor flags, nor music, but there will be only a wet, waste field, hunger, cold, gloom, in front the slaying enemy, behind the goading authorities, blood, wounds, sufferings, rotting corpses, and a senseless, useless death
37. From this source my anxiety for the restoration of the money unjustly taken from me, arises more than any other; and on every review of the subject, I am bound to say that I have been more cruelly treated by the neglect of a duty to which my friends had pledged themselves, when they declared me innocent and patriotic, than by enemies who thought me guilty, and found me goading them in their progress toward the destruction of the liberty and republicanism of this country
