Example Sentences

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It will be provoking to lose them altogether,” said Alick.

From Snow Shoes and Canoes The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory by Little, Norman

She will be provoking enough, no doubt," she whispered as she set the iron sharply down; "but I'll never notice it.

From A Knight of the Nets by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston