Citations:provoked


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * I laid the reins, upon the neck of my lusts; I sinned against the light of the Word and the goodness of God; I have grieved the Spirit, and he is gone; I tempted the devil, and he is come to me; I have provoked God to anger, and he has left me: I have so hardened my heart, that I cannot repent.
 * This, therefore, provoked him the more to jealousy, and made their plague as hot as the fire of the Lord out of heaven could make it.


 * 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
 * Mr. Wickham was so perfectly satisfied with this conversation that he never again distressed himself, or provoked his dear sister Elizabeth, by introducing the subject of it; and she was pleased to find that she had said enough to keep him quiet.