"Nettled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... up. He had inherited enough of his father's habits to feel nettled at any doubt of his ability, and he rather startled the ...
— Syd Belton - The Boy who would not go to Sea • George Manville Fenn
... Marable joined Lillian in the library that afternoon when the sheriff arrived, and the mother's eager hopes were strengthened to note the serious importance he attached to the discovery of the bit of stone in the pocket of the little red coat. He was obviously nettled that it should have remained there unnoted while the garment was in his keeping, but Lillian tactfully exhibited the unusual inner pocket in the facing, the "shy pocket," which, thus located, offered some excuse for the ...
— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock
... was purple and she reeked of brandy. He sent her to watch the corpse. He instructed her to cover it with a sheet, and to hold herself at the disposal of the commissary and the doctor, who would come for the particulars. She replied, somewhat nettled, that she knew please God, what she had to do. She did indeed know. Madame Simonneau was born in a social circle which is obsequious to the constituted authorities and respects the dead. But when, having questioned Monsieur de Ligny, she learnt that he had dragged the body ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France
... nettled Booth, who protested that he studied faithfully but that his want of confidence ruined him. Mr. Fredericks the stage manager made constant complaints of Booth, who by the way, did not play under his ...
— The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth • George Alfred Townsend
... Becoming nettled at this, he said: "Ho! ho! and so you do not trust me, Monsieur Broussel! Well, I tell you I know at any rate who it is that lies dead out there, for I have been to see, and it will not take long for me to ...
— Orrain - A Romance • S. Levett-Yeats
... nettled marshal had Bob by the shoulder and was whirling him out of the car. On the steps he threw the suit case onto the sandy plain and then pushed the reporter roughly down the steps. Ned and Alan stood, with flushed faces, watching the reporter pick up his hat and suit case. Then young Russell made ...
— The Air Ship Boys • H.L. Sayler
... I can stay here no longer." That very day I packed up, and moved to my office. Old Karim Khan smiled a little as he saw me. I felt nettled, but said nothing, ...
— The Hungry Stones And Other Stories • Rabindranath Tagore
... lass; don't be frightened," he said, his voice gentle and kind as it had been hard. He took her hand in his. "You nettled me into replyin'. You have a sharp tongue, lass, and when I spoke I was thinkin' of ...
— The Last Trail • Zane Grey
... afraid of tumbling over, for myself," Tyrrel answered, a little nettled by his friend's frank tone of amusement. "I don't feel myself so useful to my queen and country that I rate my own life at too high a figure. It's the people below I'm chiefly concerned about. There's always someone wandering and scrambling about these cliffs, don't you see?—fishermen, ...
— Michael's Crag • Grant Allen
... glance Hanlon saw that the Secretary was nettled at the disturbance, and his color was high although he bravely continued speaking. The great audience was largely paying attention to him, and must have found him interesting, from ...
— Man of Many Minds • E. Everett Evans
... what I want, Emerson Mead," Halliday said angrily, as if nettled by Mead's assured, good-natured tone and manner. "You know you're a fugitive from justice, and that it's my duty to take you ...
— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly
... for I was nettled a bit. "Here are some of the editors asking questions already, and I'll bet the evening papers will be like dogs about a bone. This man may be a damned fool, but he's dangerous: that's to say ...
— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Elsy tell you," observed the old woman, snappishly, nettled because she had not the opportunity of telling her master the tale of Mrs. Wentworth and ...
— The Trials of the Soldier's Wife - A Tale of the Second American Revolution • Alex St. Clair Abrams
... not realize it,' he said, nettled at her quiet tone. 'Do not you understand? You and I, and all of us, have eaten and drunk, been taught more than we could learn, lived in a fine house, and been made into ladies and gentlemen, all by battening on the vice and misery ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... and it is only human nature after all. This young lad comes down, as Master Tom will do some day, full of his lectures and his hospitals, and is nettled and displeased to find his father content to have Spencer or me called in the instant anything ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Darby was nettled, and his hard eyes grew angry. "I am quite competent to deal with any murder, even if it is that of the highest in England, much less with the death of ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... should like to retrace the years back to a point when—little more than a child—I yielded to influence and made a great mistake. I should like to begin my life over again from there. When you first signified your disapproval of Millicent as a wife for Jack, I confess I was a little nettled; but on the strength of the friendship to which I have referred I must ask you to believe that never from the moment that I learnt your opinion have I by thought or action gone counter to it. This marriage ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman
... are aware that you are talking the wildest and most utter rubbish that was ever conceived," said I, nettled. "There is simply no sense in it. Given ...
— The First Violin - A Novel • Jessie Fothergill
... the leading contributors to and the publishers of the magazine were violently attacked. Both Murray and Blackwood, who were abused openly, by name, resolved to take no notice of it; but Lockhart and Wilson, who were mentioned under the thin disguise of "the Scorpion" and "the Leopard," were so nettled by the remarks on themselves, that they, in October 1818, both sent challenges to the anonymous author, through the publisher of the pamphlet. This most injudicious step only increased their discomfiture, as the unknown writer not only refused to proclaim his ...
— A Publisher and His Friends • Samuel Smiles
... all." The detective, nettled by his jeering smile, spoke hastily. "On further inquiry I learned from one of the servants today that Miss Whitney had on the same dress Wednesday morning, when her screams aroused the household, which she wore at ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... when you're feedin'," retorted Sunny, nettled. Then he turned to Minky, just as the doorway of the store was darkened by the advent of Sandy Joyce. But he glanced back in the newcomer's direction and nodded. Then he went ...
— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum
... a d—d fine blow, George!" On which the intruder took up the word, as characteristic of the competitors, and repeated it every stroke that was given, making such a ludicrous use of it that several of the onlookers were compelled to laugh immoderately; but the players were terribly nettled at it, as he really contrived, by dint of sliding in some canonical terms, to render the competitors and ...
— The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner • James Hogg
... This last discourse nettled me, I must confess, and the more because I had a great deal of it and very often; till, in short, we began at length to enter into ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 • Various
... said, with the nettled intolerance of a being angry with himself, and prone to visit his ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison
... the other machines manage to come along behind us and never find it?" retorted Myra, nettled at the hilarity of her ...
— Tabitha's Vacation • Ruth Alberta Brown
... to that, sir, surely?" I believe the lad was slightly nettled by my chuckle. No one likes to bear ...
— Vampires of Space • Sewell Peaslee Wright
... bed, and then sent myself flying out on the other side after getting in. As I picked myself up I caught sight of an end of thick rope hanging from a beam close above my hammock, and being a good deal nettled by my own stupidity and the jeers of the sailors, I sprang at the rope, caught it, and swinging myself up, I dropped quietly and successfully into my new resting-place. Once fairly in and rolled in my blanket, I felt ...
— We and the World, Part II. (of II.) - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... impassive accent of her voice, and not feeling at all flattered, the young man added in rather a nettled tone: ...
— Six Women • Victoria Cross
... of sound intelligence and courageous spirit. Calef wrote an account, also handed about in manuscript, of what had been said and done during a visitation of the Mathers to this afflicted damsel, an exposure of her imposture and their credulity, which so nettled Cotton Mather that he commenced a prosecution for slander against Calef, which, however, he soon saw ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 • Editor-In-Chief Rossiter Johnson
... the more coolly, as she noted she had nettled him on the human side until the legal one was fairly hidden, "but we don't think ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... for he has been somewhat nettled by Mr. Caxton's remarks—and he puts on an air of dignity, in order to awe away minor assailants.—"Yes, Captain Roland—not yet awhile, but all in good time. I have not stinted myself in canvas, and behind my foreground of the Hall ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various
... had got into that poor man's head, and he talked so loud, and so little to the purpose, that the soldiers who were guarding were obliged to make him hold his peace, at which he was not a little nettled, and told the soldiers that he had himself been a soldier, and served the king without pay, having been a volunteer officer. But this had no more effect than to make the soldiers laugh at him, which ...
— The Ayrshire Legatees • John Galt
... nettled, and becoming increasingly impatient, whereat Jules grinned. Indeed, it was his turn to be amused, for intuitively in the darkness he had guessed at Henri's condition; and knowing already how shaken he was, how nearly on the verge of unconsciousness, ...
— With Joffre at Verdun - A Story of the Western Front • F. S. Brereton
... Cleggett, both puzzled and nettled by the man's persistent gaze, advanced towards him across the deck of the Jasper B. and down the gangplank, hand on hip, ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis
... Virginia seemed to have a vague suspicion that Hepsey was still making fun of her; and being considerably nettled, she ...
— Hepsey Burke • Frank Noyes Westcott
... nettled by the necessity that was laid upon him of taking no notice of Minnie, that he seized the handle of the bellows passionately, and at the first puff blew nearly ...
— The Lighthouse • R.M. Ballantyne
... do," said the Captain, a little tartly—any reflection on his hearing always nettled him; "but what on earth they are for I can't conceive. You had better get ...
— The Story of a Bad Boy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... visage passed a look that, to the girl, boded anything but peace. Bostwick's manner was an almost intolerable affront, in a land where affronts are resented. However, the stranger answered quietly, despite the fact that Bostwick nettled ...
— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels
... a great advantage to be rich," said Mrs. Ormonde, reflectively, as she leaned comfortably in the corner of the carriage which conveyed her and her sister-in-law home. She was always a little nettled when she found how completely Katherine had effaced herself from De Burgh's fickle mind. She had been highly pleased with the idea of having her husband's distinguished relative for a virtuous and despairing adorer, and his desertion ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander
... not observing the colonel lying on the grass, called out among the soldiers, "Who is the —— rascal that sent my horse to the provost-marshal?" "It was I!" said the colonel, to the utter confusion of the querist. Our chief was a good deal nettled at these irregularities; and, some time after, on going to his tent, which was pitched between the roofless walls of a house, conceive his astonishment at finding the calf and the goose hanging in his own larder! He looked serious for a moment, but, on receiving an explanation, ...
— Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands - from 1809 to 1815 • Captain J. Kincaid
... the old gentleman, putting his pipe in his mouth again, and resuming his smoking. I felt rather nettled at his treatment, and ...
— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat
... had been a fool. The feeling nettled him and he thought, "Why 'some one'? Dash it, I might be a stranger in the house. Why doesn't she say who?" And then he thought, "Why should she? This is just it. I'd have heard all about it at breakfast if ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson
... asked the meaning of her extensive military preparations throughout Austria, to which the empress, nettled by the arrogance of the demand, had replied that she believed she had a right to mass troops for the protection of herself and her allies, without rendering account of her acts to foreign kings. Upon the receipt of this reply, Frederick marched his troops into Saxony, and so began the "Seven ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... Doubler at Doubler's cabin, Langford had been strangely silent regarding his plans. Not once had he referred to the nester, and his silence had nettled Duncan. Langford had ignored his hints, had returned monosyllabic replies to his tentative questions, causing the manager to appear to be an outsider in an affair in which ...
— The Trail to Yesterday • Charles Alden Seltzer
... steady aim, and, to his surprise, missed again, the bullet flying wide. The failure nettled him. He made his preparations for the third essay with care, raising and lowering the pistol several times, until he was sure that he could not miss the mark. A third failure—the bullet clipping a splinter from a fence-post on ...
— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen
... passenger, slightly nettled by the tittering of his companions. "Then what did you put out the ...
— A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... and un-American phrase, "my good man," had nettled the conductor, and besides his ...
— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson
... spare thy ingenuity, good youth," said Agelastes, somewhat nettled; "or rather, noble Caesar. Keep thy wit—thou wilt ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... so contemptuous that his cousin was nettled, and she thought, "I wish the girl could disturb his complacent equanimity just a little. It vexes one to see a man so indifferent; it's a slight to woman;" and she determined to give Miss Van Tyne the vantage-ground of an ...
— Taken Alive • E. P. Roe
... face was full of an earnest, fine sincerity. It was plain, too, that my question nettled the old fellow a bit; as might a doubt cast at an idol. But the sharpness had passed from his tone ...
— Wolfville • Alfred Henry Lewis
... foolish," said Miss Wodehouse, a little nettled. "Do you suppose I don't know and see that Mr Chatham coming and going? How often has he been seen since the first time, Nettie? and do you suppose it's all been benevolence? ...
— The Doctor's Family • Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
... Hare drank his brandy and soda in silence. Presently he walked over to the bookcases. There were two: one was filled with learned-looking volumes bearing the names of Latin authors; and the parson, who prided himself on his Latinity, was surprised, and a little nettled, to find so much ignorance proved upon him. With Tertullian, St Jerome, and St Augustine he was of course acquainted, but of Lactantius, Prudentius, Sedulius, St Fortunatus, Duns Scotus, Hibernicus exul, Angilbert, ...
— A Mere Accident • George Moore
... easy enough to understand you," retorted Gertrude, nettled. "Self-conceit is not so uncommon that one need be at a loss to recognize it. And mind, Agatha Wylie," she continued, as if goaded by some unbearable reminiscence, "if you are really going, I don't care whether we part friends or not. I have not forgotten the ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw
... offered to beautify his earlier efforts with mythological allusions. The pupil, nettled by this criticism, soon brought to his instructress a new poem, of which the first six stanzas touched upon every part of Theban mythology; whereupon she cooled his enthusiasm by remarking with a smile: "One must sow seed by the ...
— Woman's Work in Music • Arthur Elson
... She was nettled at this, and leaving her slow, wide-winged poise in the upper airs, she veered and with swallow-like swiftness darted down on him. "That sounds patronizing and elder-brotherish," she told him. "I've taken on all sorts of cargo that you don't know anything about. In ever so ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... forth; interested, but good-naturedly skeptical. One had said, "Are you making believe to telegraph that way? Well, it's good fun, anyway." Another asked if they had been reading dime novels. The patronizing tone had rather nettled the boys. ...
— Tom Slade at Temple Camp • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... was plainly nettled and chagrined. He and his troop were about as expert trailers as could be found in our cavalry, which, in the old Arizona days, meant not a little. Turned believed that 'Tonio had dared to venture ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... great man behind the counter seeing the great surgeon enter immediately assumed the grand air toward the supposed suppliant for his vote. "I presume, sir," he said, "you want my vote and interest at this momentous epoch of your life." Abernethy, who hated humbugs, and felt nettled at the tone, replied: "No, I don't; I want a pennyworth of figs; come, look sharp and wrap them up; I want to ...
— How to Get on in the World - A Ladder to Practical Success • Major A.R. Calhoon
... Gibeault, nettled, outbid his rival for the next skin, and thus it went on, first one and then the other raising the prices higher and higher, much to the delight of the Indians. Oo-koo-hoo had already sold a number of skins for more than their market value before it dawned on the white ...
— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming
... after dinner, and hearing that there was this obstruction, made a violent attack upon poor Hopwood (the Queen's Counsel, afterwards Recorder of Liverpool, a member of the Radical Club) and on those acting with him, for obstruction. Chamberlain, much nettled by this attack upon our men below the gangway for doing only that which they had been told to do, got up and ironically referred to Hartington as "the late leader," and I was stung, by Fawcett clumsily ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn
... he said quietly. He did not even look nettled that I'd addressed him in impolite (if not rough) terms. "May I point out that I am far ahead of your game? Thoroughly outnumbered, and in ignorance of the counter-movement against me until you so vigorously brought it to my attention; within a year I ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith
... was somewhat nettled at the doubting expression with which the governor met his account of his interview with Jack Harkaway ...
— Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks - Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series • Bracebridge Hemyng
... an uncommon amount of sense. I should not have thought it, to judge from your actions," returned Pixie, nettled, "'Twould be interesting to hear what strikes you as so ...
— The Love Affairs of Pixie • Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
... little. 'Your Molly is one in a thousand, to my mind. But then you see she comes of no family at all,—and I don't suppose she'll have a chance of much money.' This he said as if he were thinking aloud, and without reference to Mr. Gibson, but it nettled the latter gentleman, ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... That nettled Rick a little. The idea of assuming that a mere cat, even a champion Persian, could win a fight with Dismal! Then common sense got the better of him. The unhappy truth was, Shah could lick Dismal with no ...
— The Electronic Mind Reader • John Blaine
... pay, Uncle," declared Patsy, somewhat nettled by this flaccid reception of her pet scheme. "All the children will insist on being taken to a place like that, for we shall show just the pictures they love to see. And, allowing there is no money to be made from the venture, ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne
... especially they took delight in beating, seeing how it nettled the train crews. There was nothing more delightful in any program of amusement that a cowboy could conceive than riding abreast of a laboring freight engine, the sulky engineer crowding every pound of power into the cylinders, the sooty fireman ...
— The Duke Of Chimney Butte • G. W. Ogden
... must be a poor joke," I retorted, a little nettled. "Well, it's on you," he said. "You have simply shown me that Maude never told you she loved you. ...
— The Booming of Acre Hill - And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life • John Kendrick Bangs
... if you had been my brother, I could not have done more for you," retorted Lousteau, somewhat nettled, "but I won't answer for Finot. Scores of sharp fellows will besiege Finot for the next two days with offers to work for low pay. I have promised for you, but you can draw back if you like.—You little know how lucky you are," he added after a pause. ...
— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac
... exclaimed her husband, startled from his wonted leniency. "I hev never hearn ye talk in sech a key,—yer voice sounds plumb out o' tune. I be plumb sorry, Jube, ez I spoke ter you uns 'bout a meracle at all. But I frar consider'ble nettled by yer words, ye see,—'kase I know I be a powerful, ...
— The Christmas Miracle - 1911 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
... him, surprised. What odd—and yes, rather improper things—Sir Jacques sometimes said! But—but he was a very kind man. Mrs. Otway was a simple woman, though she would have felt a good deal nettled had ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... Company: for they justly thought that my honor and dignity and sovereign rights were the first objects of my wishes and ambition. But how can I paint my astonishment at Lord Macartney's presumption in continuing his usurpation after their positive and reiterated mandates, and, as if nettled by their interference, which he disdained, in redoubling the fury of his violence, and sacrificing the public and myself to his malice ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... three long days disdained, The dust upon the folio settled; For some-one, in the right, was pained, And some-one nettled, ...
— Collected Poems - In Two Volumes, Vol. II • Austin Dobson
... and it nettled him curiously. All hymns were beginning to have that effect, and this one in particular always renewed the conflict between the yearning for sanctity and a desire to do something desperately wicked; the only ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde
... cried a little nettled, "you know that there is lacking the one thing you craved ...
— The Little White Bird - or Adventures In Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie
... response would be polite but perfunctory. He would look and make comment, but she knew that it left him cold. If she wore a flower at her belt or her throat, chosen with utmost care to make a tender little harmony of color with her waist or her tie or the faint pink of her cheeks, it nettled her a little that he did not even seem to ...
— The Fate of Felix Brand • Florence Finch Kelly
... a little boy, though you think yourself a big one," said Fanny, somewhat nettled at the way he spoke. "I wish to be kind to you, but I will not obey you, especially when you are angry, as you appear to be now, without any cause ...
— Norman Vallery - How to Overcome Evil with Good • W.H.G. Kingston
... have been conceived, but somehow it roused within me the impulse to make her conscious of the weakness of her sex. My masculine conceit rose and demanded an opportunity of self-assertion. I went to her, and she seemed more attractive than ever. Her independence and self-reliance nettled me, and I was mean enough to yield to the desire to see if she could resist me. But I was richly punished, for the knowledge rolled over me like a wave that she loved me, and I left her, stung by the consciousness of having taken an unworthy advantage ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various
... "Nettled by his phlegmatic conduct, I informed him that I had left the town when I was a child. He slowly returned, quite unsoftened, and not without a sarcastic kind of complacency, Had I? Ah! and did I find it had got ...
— Dickens-Land • J. A. Nicklin
... I, for you are of no use as a driver yet, and I don't like to fasten Lita when I have my best gloves on," said Miss Celia, in a tone that rather nettled ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, April 1878 - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... sandy hill, the party was obliged to "double teams," that is, to hitch five or six yoke of oxen to one wagon. Elliott and Snyder interchanged hot words over some difficulty about the oxen. Fosdick had attached his team to Graves' and had drawn Graves' wagon up the hill. Snyder, being nettled at something Elliott had said, declared that his team could pull up alone. During the excitement Snyder made use of very bad language, and was beating his cattle over the head with his whip-stock. One account says that Reed's team and Snyder's became tangled. At all events, Snyder was very ...
— History of the Donner Party • C.F. McGlashan
... I tell—i'deed, how?" replied Rube, a little nettled at our having questioned his judgment. "What the divul's yur eyes good for—all o' yur? Lookee hyur! and I'll show 'ee how I tell. Do 'ee see the colour o' thet water?—it ur as brown as a buffler in the Fall; thurfor it's ...
— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid
... unaccustomed to public speaking. A friend of mine suggested I should take lessons in elocution from "one of those actor fellows." "It is not what you say but how you say it," he said to me. "Indeed!" I replied, rather nettled. "Matthew Arnold had a wretched delivery, and I think there was something in what he said." "True, but you are not a Matthew Arnold, nor I should say a George Dawson either. So take lessons in elocution, my boy, and save yourself and your audience." Therefore, ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) • Harry Furniss
... treading fast on the heels of his own melodramatic and written views concerning their property, nettled him greatly. Each downright syllable was a sting to his conscience, but of this Iris was blissfully unaware, else she would not have applied caustic to the rankling wound caused by his momentary ...
— The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy
... handsome as she was and royal, too, I was nettled by her distance, "you ask me to help you, and you keep me at arm's length. I am not asking out of curiosity. I only want to know what allies I can depend on. Heaven knows I have gone through enough already to ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
... His tone of mentor nettled her, his attitude seemed to her priggish and dictatorial, and as the sun disappearing behind a sudden cloud, so her childish merriment quickly gave place to a feeling ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... to be sure; I ought to have shown sense enough at any rate to hold my tongue and not to answer the gibes of this vindictive man of learning. Instead, I was stupid enough to be nettled ...
— The Ink-Stain, Complete • Rene Bazin
... and the circumstances were such that every one laughed. The principal was nettled to fury. He forgot his manhood; he seized Yan by the collar. He was considered a timid boy; his face was white; his lips set. The principal beat him with the rawhide till the school cried "Shame," but he ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
... rest right Hollands; till at last (seeing her near tears) I privately slipped in the rogue's hand six shillings, whereupon he was obliging enough to receive from her the other shilling without more complaint. No doubt I was a good deal nettled and ashamed. I like to see folk thrifty, but not with so much passion; and I daresay it would be rather coldly that I asked her, as the boat moved on again for shore, where it was that she was ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... to anybody last night, or didn't I tell my name?" he said to himself; and at last concluded that he did not. His general demeanour was enough to show how he was surprised and nettled that his wife had taken him so literally—as much could be seen in his face, and in the way he nibbled a straw which he pulled from the hedge. He knew that she must have been somewhat excited to do this; moreover, she must have believed that there ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... convention of 1848 against having "cotton at both ends of the ticket." "I suppose you mean," replied Greeley, laughing, "that it won't do to have prohibition at both ends of our state ticket."[445] But, though he laughed, the editor of the Tribune went away nettled and humiliated. In the contest, which became exciting, Greeley's friends urged his selection for governor without formally presenting his name to the convention; but on the third ballot Clark received the nomination, obtaining 82 out ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
... tumbling down And wrong side up, it settled About a Chappie's flaxen crown— Oh, my! but he was nettled! ...
— The Slant Book • Peter Newell
... not alluded to again for several days, but it did Janet a deal of good to think about it. She had no time to indulge in homesick musings, with so definite a subject of indignant speculation as the meanness of the deacons. She "was nettled at herself beyond all patience" that she should have allowed herself, to fancy that so many of the things on the paper had been tokens of ...
— Janet's Love and Service • Margaret M Robertson
... asked the question, which nettled Mr. Richardson exceedingly. Possibly the informer could not have said why he was so zealous for the removal of the effigy. He would not have been willing to admit that he was seeking to advance himself in the estimation of Hon. Theodore Newville, commissioner ...
— Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times - 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance • Charles Carleton Coffin
... too quickly—and her rippling laugh rang out. He had hardly ever heard her laugh, and it enchanted him, even though he was nettled at her ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn
... now nettled. The sting of that easy touchdown was like the goad to a lazy horse. The whole line quickened, and during the remainder of the first period they forced the fighting over into Chester territory. Indeed, after a number of ...
— Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums • Mark Overton
... brought the nettled trotters down to a walk. Quietly he turned them into a shaded lane, overhung with forest trees, near which a cottage, one of the many belonging to the mill, stood in the shadow ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore
... to come any more. At the same time she could not explain things to him; so she sent a written request through the mail for his bill, telling him not to come any more. This action, following the evening when Gus Elliot had surprised her in the garden, perplexed and rather nettled Malcom, who was, to use his own expression, "a bit tetchy." Their money had grown so scarce that Edith could not pay the bill, and she was ashamed to go to see him till there was some prospect of her doing so. Thus Malcom, though disposed to be very ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... that this very receipt was in my portmanteau at the time; and, nettled at the "carryings-on" of the tailor's grandson, I drew it forth and spread it out upon the mess-table. My brethren of the mess were highly tickled at the document, several of them copying it off for ...
— The Rifle Rangers • Captain Mayne Reid
... Smith (nettled). In that case, I shall certainly tell the master of your workhouse. To think that there should be ...
— The Holiday Round • A. A. Milne
... nettled at this. "I must take men and women and circumstances as I find them," he rejoined; "and must use such agencies ...
— 54-40 or Fight • Emerson Hough
... that his nerves might be perfectly unshaken. When I went out alone and bowed to the audience, I observed that Mrs. Lloyd was leaning eagerly forward, but at the first glance at my face she sank back with a look of relief, and turned away, that she might not see my exploits. It nettled me a little, I think, ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 • Various
... he was a model employee of long experience, always very neat and dressy in appearance and exact and systematic in his work. Any break in routine nettled him, and he spoke quite censuringly to the young engineer, whom, however, he ...
— Ralph on the Overland Express - The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer • Allen Chapman
... But this answer nettled Pilate, perhaps because it assumed that he might have more interest in the case than he cared to confess; and he said angrily, "Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered Thee unto me." If ...
— The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ - A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion • James Stalker
... Alexina guessed, and although she was nettled at times that he took no note of her maturing mind and character, she was, on the ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
... a little nettled. Gaping astonishment is always apt to be irritating. "Let's leave it at that, then. ...
— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse
... not lost upon Thompson. It nettled him a little, but it was too intangible to be resented, and in any case he had no ready defence against that sort of thing. He took a third chair between the two of them and occupied himself a moment ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... night, and good befall you;" but in spite of the benediction, Janet felt nettled at her friend's sudden ...
— A Knight of the Nets • Amelia E. Barr
... it might be that,' said Pasqualigo, nettled at his rival's early information, 'the moment I heard he ...
— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli
... said the Captain, evidently a little nettled, "but I think this rude force unnecessary. I know Katrina well, but I did not know she had previously known Herr von Armstadt. This being the case, and he seeming not to wish to renew the acquaintance, I suggest that she leave of her ...
— City of Endless Night • Milo Hastings
... take place, and after a trying pause of some minutes, Etienne, who had quite recovered his audacity, and who was a little nettled at being, as it were, superseded in the command ...
— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake
... into the wastepaper basket, after an impatient glance by the recipients, I should not have been surprised or more than a little nettled; but I received answers not encouraging from both Horace Greeley and ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) - Authors and Journalists • Various
... came to see you about," I answered brusquely, somewhat nettled by their incomprehension. "I am a stranger here, and I want you to tell me what you know of the East End, in order that I may have something to ...
— The People of the Abyss • Jack London
... seek an intellectual meaning. No; there is no Inhalt in music' And he hummed contentedly the air of 'Voi che sapete.' While he was humming, Miranda whispered to me across the table, 'Separate the Lucca from the music.' 'But,' I answered rather hotly, for I was nettled by Miranda's argument ad hominem, 'But it is not possible in an opera to divide the music from the words, the scenery, the play, the actor. Mozart, when he wrote the score to Da Ponte's libretto, was excited to production by the situations. ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds
... probability, is only a conjecture. Unless they had grave reasons for their conduct, the Lord Keeper and his lady had better have joined hands in the presence of the world, for the mystery of their private wedding nettled public curiosity, and gave new life ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson
... me!" said Bors, nettled. "Certainly we don't need calculations for space-travel. We've no long journey in mind. We're simply going to go out and do some fighting when the Mekinese fleet ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... of the guard, some gathered about my father and began to cheer him. It nettled the veteran. He would take no honor for his defeat of the clever man, claiming the latter had no ...
— D'Ri and I • Irving Bacheller
... which he spoke nettled the girl, and she turned her head without answering. The supple figure felt the rebuff and all the more because others noticed it. He stood his ground, however, until Carson returned and when he saw his face he quickly drew ...
— Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew • Robert McReynolds
... a strict neutrality in the matter, and a short dispatch was sent to Lord Normanby instructing him "to make no change in his relations to the French Government." When this dispatch was shown to the French Minister, he replied, a little nettled no doubt by the suggestion that England considered herself to be stretching a point in recognising the Emperor, that he had already heard from their Ambassador in London that Lord Palmerston fully approved ...
— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell
... be doing worse, though," Betty replied, somewhat nettled at the man's words. "We might be throwing stones at you or ...
— Under Sealed Orders • H. A. Cody
... surprised and nettled me. 'You'll be acting more like a Christian woman by coming home with me,' I said sharply, 'than by stopping here. He keeps calling for you, and I can't get him ...
— Novel Notes • Jerome K. Jerome
... above all things," declared the girl, nettled by this supercilious interrogation. "If Miss Corson calls with her father and is obliged to wait, Mr. Morrison will be mortified. Very likely he will be angry because he wasn't notified. I understand the social end of things better than you, ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... Nettled at first, the humor of the situation began to appeal to him, and he wondered at the intense seriousness of the girl. She did not smile. Her eyes were very steady and very businesslike, and at the ...
— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood
... was vaguely nettled; he did not see that Ford needed any settlement-worker encouragement. If he was let alone, and his moral regeneration forgotten, and he himself treated just like any other man, Mason felt that Ford would thereby have all the encouragement ...
— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower
... perceiving by my manner that I was somewhat nettled, endeavoured to soften what they had said, by observing that certainly it would not be just to estimate the English people by the samples which came to reside at Boulogne, as they had generally understood that they were persons of indifferent reputation, who ...
— How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 • F. Herve
... her sister's death she wrote to Mr. D'Alton, offering to take charge of the children till he had time to make permanent arrangements for their education. To this letter she received no reply, which nettled her so much that she determined on a plot for wounding the pride of her haughty brother-in-law. "Who is he," she would exclaim, "that he should dare to snub me?" "If I have sinned, was she not equally bad, and is he not guilty himself?" "Never mind, Mr. D'Alton, I will have ...
— The Mysteries of Montreal - Being Recollections of a Female Physician • Charlotte Fuhrer
... spider I held out had stood with its handle over an open lid of the range, so, though nettled, I still held it turned from her, ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss
... goeth traveling about with all the odds and ends and tags and rags of our master's brain packed on his back." Thus spake Friar Tuck, but in a low voice so that Robin could not hear him, for he felt somewhat nettled at Robin's cutting his talk ...
— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle
... premature!" he exclaimed, a little nettled. "Hear me out. What is good enough for me and my fellow nobles of Imperial Russia is surely good enough for poor, under-paid professors of democratic America. Listen, friends—I am generous. Join me and we will make millionaires out ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various
... Dona Mercedes, while Dolores received me with the utmost indifference, expressing no pleasure or surprise at seeing me wearing a sword in the cause which she had professed to have so much at heart. This was a sore disappointment, and I was also nettled at her treatment of me. After dinner, over which we sat talking some time, the General left us, telling me before doing so to join him in the plaza at five o'clock next morning. I then tried to get an opportunity of speaking to ...
— The Purple Land • W. H. Hudson
... staring specs on, or I should have seen he hadn't a tail,' retorted Jawleyford, nettled at the tone in ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... Julius was slightly nettled at the elder man's tone and manner. He answered with an accentuation of his usual refinement of enunciation and ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
... paper privately distributed among the officers and soldiers, tending to induce them to revolt and quit me; on which I issued a proclamation, denouncing the English commanding-officer as a madman, and prohibiting all intercourse with him. This nettled Sir Sydney so much, that he sent me a challenge to meet him in single combat on the beach at Caiffa. My reply was, that when Marlborough appeared for that purpose, I should be at his service; but I had other duties to fulfil besides fighting a duel with an English commodore." He pursued ...
— The Surrender of Napoleon • Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland
... somewhat sharply; nettled by the obvious meaning and by the sneering sarcasm of the novelist's words ...
— The Eyes of the World • Harold Bell Wright
... Nettled by this show of levity, for which she discerned no cause, Miss Carpenter's sentence upon the supposed culprit was instant ...
— Polly of Lady Gay Cottage • Emma C. Dowd
... humbly but firmly, "regrets it more than I do, gentlemen, if I spoke up too hot. But, sir," and he bowed to Sir John, "you were wishing to nettle me, and there's no question that for the moment I was nettled." ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... the—lady of Tamiya." Iemon knew the term "O'Bake" had nearly slipped out. Knowing O'Iwa's attractiveness of temperament, feeling touched in his own conceit, this astonished and satirical reception he met with on every side nettled him more than a little. Perhaps Kwaiba noted it. With greatest unction he urged a cushion and at once changed the subject. "Iemon San is noted as a go player. This Kwaiba is a mere amateur. It is for him to ask odds in making request for a game.... Ho! Heigh! ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... you mean?" said Lush, more nettled than was common with him—the prospect before him being more ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... grew nettled and said that to paint Lady Digby as "The Virgin" might be all right, and even to turn around and picture her as "Susanna at the Bath" was not necessarily out of place, but to show Margaret Lemon, Anne Carlisle and Catherine Wotton as "The Three Graces" was surely bad taste. And furthermore, ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters • Elbert Hubbard
... don't ask us to dance to your music," said I, perhaps a little nettled; "as for going down, of course we shall, Peter. Do you suppose I'm the one to die up here like a rat in a trap? Not so, I do assure you. Give me twilight and a clear road, and I'll show you the ...
— The House Under the Sea - A Romance • Sir Max Pemberton
... Staniford was nettled. He would have preferred a devoted belief that but for him Hicks must have perished. Besides, what she said still gave no clew to her feeling in regard to himself. He was obliged to go on, but he went on as indifferently as he ...
— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells
... Isles is sometimes apt to be a little nettled when he finds a native of the United States regarding him as a "foreigner" and talking of him accordingly. An Englishman never means the natives of the United States when he speaks of "foreigners;" he reserves that epithet for non-English-speaking races. In this respect ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead
... quiet," said Briant, reddening, for he felt somewhat humbled at having given way to his anger so easily, and was nettled at the remark, coming as it did, in a sneering spirit, from a man for whom he had ...
— The Red Eric • R.M. Ballantyne
... remark was the turning-point. Had the good lady condescended to be earnest in her entreaties that the bargain should not be concluded, it is highly probable her husband would have given in; but her last observation nettled him so much that he immediately hoisted a flag of defiance, nailed it to the mast, and went out in great indignation to search for Maggot. That individual was not far off. The bargain was completed, the jewels were locked ...
— Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines • R.M. Ballantyne
... replied Peterkin, a little nettled by Arthur's manner, which he could not understand. 'You see, me and Mary Jane was early to the doin's; fust ones, in fact, for when your invite says half past seven it means it, I take it. Wall, we was here on time, and Mary Jane has been on ...
— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes
... fear not; We soldiers do what we deplore— I must detain you till we march" The stranger nodded. Nettled now, He grew politer than before:— "'Tis Mosby's fault, this halt and search" The ...
— Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War • Herman Melville
... nettled Raskolnikoff. "You think so? Then lay your hand upon him," said he, maliciously delighted ...
— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various
... Aught of its contents. Then I cursed myself, And muttered—'Fool—can you not shake it off— This nightmare of your boyhood?—Brave, indeed— Crushed like a spaniel by this false Pauline! Crushed am I?—By the gods, I'll make an end, And she shall never know it nettled me!' So passed the weary days. My cheeks grew thin; I needed rest, I said, and quit my books To range the fields and hills with fowling-piece And 'mal prepense' toward the feathery flocks. The pigeons flew from tree-tops o'er my head; I heard the flap of wings—and ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon
... difficulty in making the men she knew regret anything that resembled presumption, but with this man it was different. What he meant she would not at the moment ask herself, but, though she rather admired his quietly confident tone, it nettled her, and yet, without begging an awkward question she could not resent it. Geoffrey's reckless frankness was often more unassailable than wiser men's diplomacy—and she was certainly pleased that ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss |
