"Nettling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... PHA. Some nettling stuff, i'faith; let him write thus: Most heart-commanding-faced gentlewoman, even as the stone in India, called Basaliscus, hurts all that looks on it, and as the serpent in Arabia, called Smaragdus, delighteth the sight, ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various
... Lennox and her elder sisters was not a little nettling to Dame Mary Talbot, who held that some consideration was her due, as the proud mother of the only grandson of the house of Shrewsbury, little George, who was just able to be put on horseback in the court, and say he was riding ...
— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge |
