22 collocations for nettles

Are you speaking politically?" "I am stating the plain fact," said Kent, nettled a little by her coolness.

"By the Mass," exclaimed his grace, nettled, "thou art the verist fool in all the council.

" It was the inimical, remote, icy superiority of her tone that nettled meperhaps her implied assumption that I would not know it for such.

The suggestion of scorn in this speech nettled Van Bibber.

What makes you think you're paralyzed?" "My good man," said the woman majestically, "when a person in good health and accustomed to normal activity suddenly loses the power to use hererfeet, isn't that an indication of some physical trouble?" Her unfortunate and un-American phrase, "my good man," had nettled the conductor, and besides his train was losing time.

But to have him even in the lightest way intimate that her housekeeping was preferable to that of his own sister nettled her self-esteem.

This nettled lord Falkland, and made him exert his spirit to humble and oppose the supercilious churchman.

This high- handed manner nettled one fellow terribly: "Not so arbitrary, my friend!"

"By the Mass," exclaimed his grace, nettled, "thou art the verist fool in all the council.

Ye crickets, mark how nettled our friend the goatherd is!

" These lines so nettled Lord Gardenstone, that the volume disappeared, and was never seen afterwards in the inn of Laurencekirk.

" Something in his tone nettled Helen, and she said sharply, "All this may be amusing to you, but it spoils my confidence in others to know they wear masks.

Major Sanford could not, however, conceal his particular attention to me, which rather nettled Miss Lawrence.

" The allusion to magnanimity produced some derisive laughs, which slightly nettled Matthew.

" It was the inimical, remote, icy superiority of her tone that nettled meperhaps her implied assumption that I would not know it for such.

" Something in the tone nettled Mershone.

" This language nettled Raskolnikoff.

Can you put un to cut off they nettles along the ditch among they stones?'

It annoyed her that the funny creature was obstinate about this point, and she tried to nettle his vanity.

It nettled the veteran.

In truth, Franklin alone had the ear of the Count de Vergennes, through whom all American business was transacted, which exceedingly nettled the intense, confident, and industrious Adams, whose vanity was excessive.

" "Ah-h!" said Agricola, further nettling his victim by a gaze of stagy admiration.

22 collocations for  nettles