For the first time it was beginning to steal upon me that I had not prepared a really good story in support of my questionable behaviour in ringing fire bells at such an hour, and I have known Aunt Dahlia to express herself with a hearty freedom upon far smaller provocation.

From the version given of the affair by the negroes who witnessed it (but which was contradicted by two white men who were on the spot), I was inclined to think the crime was committed under feelings of great provocation, the negro, as is commonly the case on board steam-boats, having been for a long time browbeaten by the victim of the sad catastrophe, and subjected to very insolent and overbearing treatment at his hands.

Are no moral evils produced among those communities, which make war upon other communities for the sake of plunder, and without any previous provocation or offence?

" Ninon took this weak Chevalier in charge and endeavored to make a man of him by exposing his frailties, and, entering into a long correspondence, to instruct him in the pathology of the female heart, with which he was disposed to tamper on the slightest provocation.

In great Martiniqueso the French sayit is dangerous to travel through certain woodlands on account of the Fer-de-lance, who lies along a bough, and strikes, without provocation, at horse or man.

The capitalist newspapers announced to the world that these unoffending paraders were killed in cold bloodthat they were murdered from ambush without provocation of any kind.

The same thing may be seen in the account given by Gellius of one Lucius Veratius, who had the audacity to give some Roman citizens whom he met on the road a box on the ear, without any provocation whatever; but to avoid any ulterior consequences, he told a slave to bring a bag of small money, and on the spot paid the trivial legal penalty to the men whom he had astonished by his conduct.

Love and compassion, be the provocation ever so great, are hard to be separated: while anger converts what would be pity, without it, into resentment.

If you suffer provocation, let the remembrance that it is a brother who has injured you, prevent retaliation, and secure for him entire forgiveness.

The wonder to me is that anyone keeps nice when one thinks of the provocation there is to deteriorate.

One can't be very frivolous when there is no one to be frivolous with; nor can one backbite and be unkind, for there is no provocation.

exclaimed Frank, in rather expressive slang, something in which he seldom indulged, unless under great provocation.

But without any Provocation, that I know of, she has of late shunned me with the utmost Abhorrence, insomuch that she went out of Church last Sunday in the midst of Divine Service, upon my coming into the same Pew.

How could he have given way to the provocation of her weakness, when his business was to defend her from it and lift her above it?

The deed was done in the heat of passion, under circumstances of great provocation, during a quarrel about a woman.

A girl of his own kind he would have kissed in a moment at such provocation, or none.

I should say rather upon tremendous provocation.

" In both the above cases where the military was called out, the provocation was given by the white.

Other cruelties may be perpetrated in hot blood and the acts regretted as soon as donethe feeling that prompts them is not a permanent state of mind, but a violent impulse stung up by sudden provocation.

The master came in, seized a large horsewhip, and, without any warning or apparent provocation, laid it over the face and eyes of the slave.

Several of the colonial agents have powerful inducements to the provocation of some insurrectionary outbreak, on the part of the colored population.

Other cruelties may be perpetrated in hot blood and the acts regretted as soon as donethe feeling that prompts them is not a permanent state of mind, but a violent impulse stung up by sudden provocation.

The note the boy brought me did not seem adapted to furnish much provocation for laughter.

They found it hard to believethey would not believe that without any provocation from France, without any challenge, Germany would deliberately, force this war upon the Triple Entente and make a bloody shambles of European civilization.

This penitent, now famous, carried his provocation of the inexhaustible goodness very far.