例文・使い方で印象づける「provocation」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... “that the knights who behaved in this wayhad provocation and cause for those follies and penances; but what causehas your worship for going mad? What lady has rejected you... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete」
...Instead of the French officer, who used the grossest provocation, they have arrested Captain Wolverstone...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...This council shall hold at once an impartial investigation into the affair, and the offender, the man guilty of having given provocation, shall be punished...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
... “If you were to lay a finger on me, Binet, you would give me the only provocation I still need to kill you...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...They think that illness hadbeen waiting for some further slight provocation, and that the previousdays' tramp, which was almost entirely through plashy Bougas or swamps,turned the scale against them...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
... The provocation for which his fellow-servant was killed, was said to be very trifling...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...It mattered not what the provocation, what the desperate cause...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...The madam grew more irritable and exacting, always finding fault with the servants, whipping them, or threatening to do so, upon the slightest provocation, or none at all...
Louis Hughes 「Thirty Years a Slave」
...As I said before, this brute often,unwounded, attacks man without any provocation whatever...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Yet, at the back of the humanthroat ever lurks that fool-cry of "Mad dog!"—everready to leap forth into shouted words at thefaintest provocation...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...A battlesoon succeeds to provocation or affront...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...Donkeys haveoften been known after enduring great provocation from boysto turn on their assailants and put them to speedy andanxious flight...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
... But she threw a provocation into her glance as she spoke, which belied her words, and which penetrated even the sodden intellect of poor Blunt...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...There could be little doubt that the convictshad been the aggressors, though the man who returned stronglydenied having given any kind of provocation...
Arthur Phillip 「The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay」
...The men were all armed, and, without any provocation, two of them had a contest with clubs; at the same time a few blows passed between some of the women...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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