...A “miners’ meeting,” called on thespot, decided that the dog had sufficient provocation, and Buck was discharged... 
Jack London 「The Call of the Wild」
...Few things are more provocative; and Colonel Bishop's temper was never one that required much provocation...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...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」
...He bared his fangs now as naturally and upon as slight provocation asSheeta, the panther, bared his...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Son of Tarzan」
...I told him he had insulted me, and hadgiven the provocation, by first striking me...
Olaudah Equiano 「The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African」
...The only provocation we suffered was from the attacks of the tsetse, or panga (sword) fly, which swarmed here...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Oftentimes without the smallest provocation, andsometimes under the fairest professions of friendship, they willsuddenly seize upon the negroes’ cattle, and even on theinhabitants themselves...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 1 [of 2]」
...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」
...I have heard of many other cases of the BlackBear attacking without any provocation, and from what I know of thebrute I quite believe them; and, after all, the animal is not worthshooting...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...At times theiractions are sufficient to characterize them asthe veriest cowards in the world, and yetagain, on very slight provocation, they aremost aggressive and cruelly ferocious...
Various 「Hunting in Many Lands」
... 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」
...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」
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