...D' ye think we can do without a navigator that ye go and provoke that beast Bishop until he all but kills you?” ... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...Do not provoke that, I implore you...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...Jealousy and the feelings that provoke it seemed tome trivialities, nor worth thinking of...
Leo Tolstoy 「The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories」
...34, it is stated that "to provoke theelephants to fight they showed them the blood of grapes and ofmulberries...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Otherwise the maleis more anxious to get away than to provoke an attack...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...A loud word or a box on the ear may on some occasions be required; but onno account should a blow he given, or anything done to provoke the angerof the animal...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...Whenfairly placed for battle they begin a system of fence which is intendedto provoke the enemy to an untimely assault...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 「Domesticated Animals」
...They are looking for this liquid, they provoke its emission...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
... I found it impossible to provoke a second attack from my Harlequin Calicurgus: the tedium of captivity did not favour the exercise of her talents...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...“It might be wiser to do so than to provoke the animal by firing,” said Mr Rogers, smiling...
George Manville Fenn 「Off to the Wilds」
... and tried to provoke him to it by catcalls...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 「A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Complete」
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