例文・使い方で印象づける「provocation」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...A “miners’ meeting,” called on thespot, decided that the dog had sufficient provocation, and Buck was discharged... 
Jack London 「The Call of the Wild」
...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」
... The big, old bulls of Kerchak talked but littleand fought upon the slightest provocation...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
...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」
...She whipped her slaves without the slightest provocation, andseemed to take delight in inventing new tortures with which to punishthem...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States」
...It is not likely that there will be international complications, although the provocation must at times be keen...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...The mothersabandon their offspring on slight provocation, and even none at allsometimes, if we may judge from the condition of the little waif thatfell into our hands...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...They will, with slight provocation, assail any of the other domesticatedspecies of birds, and even the lesser mammals, such as the dogs andcats...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 「Domesticated Animals」
...In one group oftribes the headman is forbidden to eat in a strange village, andunder no provocation whatever may he utter a word of abuse...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...To resent an injury, received from a whiteman, though of the lowest rank, and to dare to strike him, though upon thestrongest and grossest provocation, is an enormous crime...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
...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」
...Rex had a wholesome respect for personal prowess, and had the grace to admit the provocation to Troke...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...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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