Both Uses of
nettle
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Recollection of the strange antics she had indulged in when passing through the trees was succeeded in the girl by a nettled palpitation, and that by a hot face.†
Chpt 1-3
- "Why should he?" again demanded her mistress, wearing a nettled look.†
Chpt 13-15 *
Definition:
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(nettle as in: my nettlesome little sister) to annoy -- especially with minor irritations