Goaded
[gəʊdid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Goad
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Examples
- Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment--far worse than my abandonment--how it goaded me! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Goaded by long-suffering patience the worm will turn. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The _picadores_, who have stationed themselves near him, commence the attack with their lances, and the bull is thus goaded to fury. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Another moment, and Mr. Thornton might be smitten down,--he whom she had urged and goaded to come to this perilous place. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I should hate to do it, replied Shirley, but I think I could do it, if goaded by certain exigencies which I can imagine. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I must be goaded, driven, stung, forced to energy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Rome provoked the war by encouraging the Numidians to encroach upon Carthage until the Carthaginians were goaded to fight in despair. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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