Stung

Examples

• She was stung, as if this were an insult. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I don't know what you mean by wrong, Cadwallader, said Sir James, still feeling a little stung, and turning round in his chair towards the Rector. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• To be stung by irony it is not necessary to understand it, and the angry streaks on Trenor's face might have been raised by an actual lash. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The thought of this perpetually stung him; it was a picture before his eyes, wherever he went and whatever he was doing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• If she still needs me, she's determined not to let me see it, he thought, stung by her manner. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He actually thought I was stung with a kind of jealous pain similar to his own! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Stung to madness, he vainly hoped, as many another has done, to fling the whole thing from his heart by one desperate effort. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I may be stung, I may seem to droop for a time, but no pain or malady of sentiment has yet gone through my whole system. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Now, if I had been stung by ten adders I should hardly have lost a day's work for't, said Grandfer Cantle. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The mere hearing of those two words stung me with a jealous despair that was poison to my higher and better instincts. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• To hear her own daughter made the subject of such a proposal as this, stung my mistress into speaking angrily for the first time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Her vanity was stung by the sight of his unscathed smile. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She has been stung by an adder! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She wears very neat patterns always, said Mrs. Plymdale, a little stung. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I must be goaded, driven, stung, forced to energy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Fred was stung, and released her hand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• What stung me, was the identification of the whole affair with my unoffending self. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He who has prairie fever once always gets it again, and it sends him off on his travels into the wilds as if he were stung by the gadfly of Io. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The amiable artist carried his sting, but Ladislaw did not choose to appear stung. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Until now, agonizing retrospect, and dreary prospects for the future, had stung me when awake, and cradled me to my repose. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The reddleman, stung with suspicion of wrong to Thomasin, was aroused to strategy in a moment. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I fed like a wild beast, which seizes its food only when stung by intolerable hunger. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Checker: Wilmer