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  • I floundered, trying to put the instinct that so often whispered to me and goaded me to do, or not to do, things into words.   (source)
    goaded = encouraged
  • Paco wiggles the offending taco, goading me.   (source)
    goading = provoking (making angry)
  • Yet the very idea of the oath itself—appearing at the end of that first chaotic year—became the final goad that prodded many once-loyal citizens to turn militantly anti-American.   (source)
    goad = provocation (something that angered or annoyed)
  • I'm not giving up, Jerry had pledged, listening to Archie's goading voice.   (source)
    goading = prodding or encouraging
  • Until Mr. Tanner gave me a healthy prod in the backside with his goad and said, "Git!"   (source)
    goad = a pointed stick or other device used to prod animals (get them to move)
  • If he drew a quitter he asked for a reride on the same horse and came out of the chute raking and gouging in defiance of the rules, goading the horse to violent, malevolent action.   (source)
    goading = prodding -- as if sticking with something sharp
  • The warm taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater fierceness.   (source)
    goaded = provoked (caused to take action)
  • ...according to custom, he would take his father's place on Kala Nag's neck when he grew up, and would handle the heavy iron ankus, the elephant goad, that had been worn smooth by his father, and his grandfather, and his great-grandfather.   (source)
    goad = a stick or rod used to poke an animal to encourage it to move in a particular direction
  • Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment — far worse than my abandonment — how it goaded me!   (source)
    goaded = provoked (caused to take action)
  • There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.   (source)
    goading = provoking or encouraging
  • He dashed his head against the knotted trunk; and, lifting up his eyes, howled, not like a man, but like a savage beast being goaded to death with knives and spears.   (source)
    goaded = prodded or poked
  • Thus I used to think, and thus I used to speak to myself; goaded almost to madness at one moment, and at the next reconciling myself to my wretched lot.   (source)
    goaded = angered or annoyed
  • "Hundred meters," he goaded her.†   (source)
  • The guards began goading him into running around the compound alone.†   (source)
  • THE INSOMNIA THAT NIGHT WAS BEYOND ANYTHING EDGAR HAD experienced, a goblin presence in his room, goading him between self-recrimination one minute and white anger the next.†   (source)
  • Those who had been frowning now murmured in agreement, but it was the sight of Percy's sanctimonious little nod that goaded Harry into speech.†   (source)
  • The feeling of shame that was still animating my flesh with goading particularity and self-consciousness—it would be enough for that to dissipate.†   (source)
  • It hadn't been easy: finding Mars Bar, taking all his lip about cheating on the race, taking some bumps, some shoves, Mars goading him to fight.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to add to his humiliations; I even sympathized with his trembling, goaded egotism he could no longer contain, the furious arrogance which sprang out now at the mere hint of opposition from someone he had at last found whom he could consider inferior to himself.†   (source)
  • All around us, the class cheers, goading on the warriors.†   (source)
  • Reynie was hoping his words would infuriate Mr. Curtain into sleep, but Mr. Curtain had prepared himself and was not so easily goaded.†   (source)
  • Cumulatively, these bites aroused him and enraged him, goaded him.†   (source)
  • Rubbing my eyes, trying to keep myself awake with cold showers and iced coffee, I goaded myself on by reminding myself what a good thing I was doing, though my endless cramming felt a lot more like self destruction than any glue-sniffing I'd ever done; and at some bleary point, the work itself became a kind of drug that left me so drained that I could hardly take in my surroundings.†   (source)
  • With a savage wrench, Eragon yanked Cadoc around and galloped back up the trail, goading the horse with both heels and mind.†   (source)
  • And, after some gentle goading, Denna sang for me.†   (source)
  • This only goads them into talking further, in lowered voices, their heads leaning in toward each other.†   (source)
  • The head Crip keeps goading them forward with his voice, shooing them toward Raven with his hands.†   (source)
  • He swam back to reality five minutes later, hearing the dim, goading voice of that sportscaster in his head: 'He's trying to get going again!†   (source)
  • No—he was goading them toward the doors, toward the elevators and the fire escape.†   (source)
  • And she knew she was being goaded into this anger deliberately.†   (source)
  • Fear locked her in a vise, goading the blunt, clumsy limbs forward but hampering them at the same time.†   (source)
  • "He was goaded into writing them!" answered Mom.†   (source)
  • I goaded him.†   (source)
  • But when I eventually pull the bill out of the envelope—goaded by Clare's curious gaze—my smile falters, then disappears.†   (source)
  • It didn't surprise Augustus, since Bol had worked for them all those years without saying a word to anybody unless directly goaded into it—usually by Augustus.†   (source)
  • Their goading glances and private snickers at her way of talking (saying "chil'ren") and dressing developed in her a desire for new clothes.†   (source)
  • "No," returned Johnnie, goaded past endurance, "I'm going over to see if I can get them to refuse to take this one."†   (source)
  • Amanda was goading her—†   (source)
  • And if the crowd does express its disapproval, it merely goads him on to bigger and better things, much in the way Tomas was spurred on by the difficulty of a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Ostensibly idle at the time, goaded by fellow Soviet directors to discard his theories and conceits.†   (source)
  • His goading remained gentle.†   (source)
  • "Come on, Max," Alex goaded.†   (source)
  • Aware that Moody was goading me, I still could not sort out reality from his sadistic fantasies.†   (source)
  • She's goading me by being so informal with my name when I haven't given her leave to do so.†   (source)
  • He urged her to keep goading their parents, so tentative with the English language, to keep writing letters to him.†   (source)
  • He goaded Suggs into killing him.†   (source)
  • Maybe you'll be the one," his colleague goaded him as the men laughed and got back to work.†   (source)
  • Those nine dead finks were replaced with ninety, for Authority was goaded into something it did reluctantly, namely spend money on us, and one folly led to another.†   (source)
  • "There was nothing I could do," he mumbled, goaded, as she'd intended, by her silence.†   (source)
  • I rode with one hand on the pommel and the other goading my horse with a switch.†   (source)
  • It's just goading them on to seize everything.†   (source)
  • Then the others began goading me.†   (source)
  • Drizzt took a small step backward, goading the giant into the great cat's path.†   (source)
  • It goaded me until I lost command over the heavenly fire.†   (source)
  • They weren't forcing her, or even goading her, or doing anything to coerce.†   (source)
  • He'd trusted me enough to bare himself to me, to believe that I wouldn't ram that stake right through his heart as he'd practically goaded me to do.†   (source)
  • It's true I goaded him, but I couldn't help it.†   (source)
  • Almost simultaneously, many black people had become convinced that every time a black community was goaded into such an explosion, it served only the cause of racists and brought us closer to a genocidal situation.†   (source)
  • Horns were blown and trumpets were braying, and the mumakil were bellowing as they were goaded to war.†   (source)
  • Nor had I ever listened to such goads to better effort—to slacken off, to push on, to go harder, faster, deeper—nor such huzzahs over gained first downs, such groans of despair over lost yardage, such shrill advice as to where to put the ball.†   (source)
  • If she'd had to take care of me all by herself, and had that to occupy her mind, maybe she'd have been able— TYRONE Goaded into vindictiveness.†   (source)
  • But the thought of this man's efficiency, and the sight of Mary's swollen face, suddenly goaded Dick.†   (source)
  • She liked to goad me into chasing her.   (source)
    goad = tease or provoke (into doing something)
  • Her goading struck into his brain; his lips snarled and his eyes were fierce again.   (source)
    goading = provoking to do something annoying
  • Children of the Camp are we,
    Serving each in his degree;
    Children of the yoke and goad,
    Pack and harness, pad and load.   (source)
    goad = a stick or rod used to prod animals (poke them to encourage movement in a particular direction)
  • Children of the Camp are we,
    Serving each in his degree;
    Children of the yoke and goad,
    Pack and harness, pad and load!   (source)
  • Goaded, by the interference, into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain.   (source)
    goaded = provoked (angered or annoyed into taking action)
  • Goading Myrtle seemed to have put fresh heart into Ron.†   (source)
  • Vanir may have goaded you, but that was no reason to respond in kind.†   (source)
  • Eragon refused to let himself be goaded.†   (source)
  • Freed of its goads and hooks, the big worm began burrowing into the sand.†   (source)
  • "Too scared to fight?" she goads, lazily flicking a hand.†   (source)
  • Beyond that, he goaded them toward school any way he could.†   (source)
  • Perhaps because the girl goaded me, or perhaps ...I find these two demigods intriguing.†   (source)
  • Even Bing Crosby, owner of a promising colt named High Strike, began goading Howard.†   (source)
  • "Squeeze it into juice," Felicity says, goading me.†   (source)
  • Now that Max was bottled up like a fly, could it be goaded into doing the same?†   (source)
  • Wes's goading dried up before Ian scored the third goal.†   (source)
  • But was luck that Warden, goaded too far, ran down a ramp.†   (source)
  • Augustus had forgotten how fond she was of goading him.†   (source)
  • The dwarves let them close in, goading them with taunts until the monsters were nearly upon them.†   (source)
  • Mocking, goading, cajoling and looking for trouble.†   (source)
  • Behind me, a furious hissing, like a nest of goaded snakes, echoed in the big cavern.†   (source)
  • Part of it was the simple fact that the heat was drawing back — the tormenting beat and what it was doing to Tad had been the biggest thing goading her to make a move.†   (source)
  • Harry shouted, goaded past endur-ance.†   (source)
  • I didn't have to be goaded the time she leaned out of the window above me and dropped a raw turnip on my head.†   (source)
  • To work at a daily task and sense this was a goading, prickling pleasure for me, invested significance in the plates I was rinsing and the leftovers I was scraping into the garbage can.†   (source)
  • The pup had been provoking his mother, taunting, goading any way it could, purposefully misunderstanding what she'd asked of it, tackling its littermates—anything to make her angry.†   (source)
  • As if goaded into disproof, one of the specks peeled away and began its near-vertical dive, directly above their heads.†   (source)
  • He wanted to talk to Sirius, to tell him he shouldn't listen to a word Snape said, that Snape was goading him deliberately and that the rest of them didn't think Sirius was a coward for doing as Dumbledore told him and remaining in Grimmauld Place.†   (source)
  • There was a way in which I could look at my life as an unending battle to make friends, and the girls' worries resonated with my own, worries that came in waves, sometimes pricking me and goading me until all I could think was that there were parties all over the county that I wasn't being invited to, and tempting me to drive around to the farms of all our friends, just to see the truth at last.†   (source)
  • 'Snape — Snape g — goaded Sirius about staying in the house — he made out Sirius was a coward = 'Sirius was much too old and clever to have allowed such feeble taunts to hurt him,' said Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • At home, it was galling to think of how others were talking about us, bad enough to think of their ridicule or disapproval, but worse to think how they were surely entertained by us, how this stinging, goading, angry self-consciousness that impelled me every day, every minute, to seek relief was nothing to them, something they couldn't feel and hardly ever gave a thought to.†   (source)
  • I goaded him further.†   (source)
  • The tetter heads tried goading him (although he was only four or five years older then they) but not for long, for his curses were stingingly personal.†   (source)
  • "Go ahead!" he goaded.†   (source)
  • It goaded me on.†   (source)
  • Felicity goads.†   (source)
  • He had been at the Fourteenth Street Clinic in Detroit for more than a year, a job he took only after I goaded him into it.†   (source)
  • You go and tell them that—say that Shade Buckheath—that somebody ought to—" She broke off abruptly, and sprang up like a suddenly goaded creature.†   (source)
  • Alex, stop goading Brittany.†   (source)
  • Archie goaded.†   (source)
  • At a little past nine, she left poor Mavity at the door of that wretched place the poor woman called her room, looked quietly in to see that her mother seemed to sleep, got her hat and hurried out, goaded by a seemingly disproportionate fever of impatience and anxiety.†   (source)
  • Quietly I goaded Moody toward the decision that it was too much of a chore to go along on a woman's errand.†   (source)
  • After them and among them rode New Canaan cowpunchers armed with long goads with which they urged the beasts to greater speed— the undesirability of running weight off the animals was offset by the extreme cost of keeping the gate open, a cost which had to be charged against the cattle.†   (source)
  • The fields goaded him, and the company ditches with good water flowing were a goad to him.†   (source)
  • The life he saw was short and his sense of it goaded him.†   (source)
  • Who goaded you into admitting that you thought men were fools to die for high-sounding principles?†   (source)
  • Crome, I had noticed, could often be goaded into speech when other methods would have failed.†   (source)
  • Her eagerness tantalized him, goaded him into sharper listening.†   (source)
  • The deliberate calm of Hugh Barton sometimes goaded her to a frenzy.†   (source)
  • "Well, what if he is?" cried Scarlett, goaded.†   (source)
  • She knew he was laughing and the thought goaded her.†   (source)
  • I'd ride with him in the back seat while Dingbat sat with mauled, crazy neck and a short grip on the wheel, ukelele and bathing suit on the cushion beside him; he was particularly sex-goaded when he drove, shouting, whistling, and honking after quiff, to the entertainment of his father.†   (source)
  • One thing, anyhow, was certain; discontent was on the increase and, fearing worse to come, the local officials debated lengthily on the measures to be taken if the populace, goaded to frenzy by the epidemic, got completely out of hand.†   (source)
  • Keating's eyes were bright with disgust; aversion goaded him on; he had to make it worse because he couldn't stand it.†   (source)
  • At this Wang Lung was goaded to anger.†   (source)
  • And, her nose reddened by the spitting grease, she would purse her lips, saying little, save, when goaded, to make some return calculated to infuriate and antagonize him.†   (source)
  • If a statement involved someone's personal motive, it was always "goaded by selfishness" or "egged by greed."†   (source)
  • Now Wang Lung saw that although his uncle himself grew old and lazy and careless and would not have troubled to complain if he had been let alone, yet the young man, his son, and his wife goaded him, and one day when Wang Lung stood at the gate he heard these two urging the old man, "Well, and he has money and food, and let us demand silver of him."†   (source)
  • She hated secrecy; an air of mystery, a crafty but knowing reticence, or the unfathomable depths of other-wordliness goaded her to fury.†   (source)
  • From time to time they goaded him into a new frenzy with complaints about lost hats, bayonets, small arms, and papers.†   (source)
  • Under Mrs. Merriwether's goading, Dr. Meade took action, in the form of a letter to the newspaper wherein he did not mention Rhett by name, though his meaning was obvious.†   (source)
  • At length, goaded, he would lash his great bulk, lulled in the powerful inertia of its visions, into a cursing and violent movement.†   (source)
  • But if she sold the mills— No, she did not want to sell but, goaded by the thought that Rhett had exposed her to Ashley in so truthful and so unflattering a light, she had made up her mind instantly.†   (source)
  • And Eliza's hurt was deeper because she knew that just at this time, when her slightest movement goaded him, did what was most rawly essential in him reveal itself.†   (source)
  • Scarlett was goaded.†   (source)
  • He was goaded to actual fury at times when he saw how carefully she saved bits of old string, empty cans and bottles, paper, trash of every description: the mania for acquisition, as yet an undeveloped madness in Eliza, enraged him.†   (source)
  • This goaded her daughter's bitter curiosity almost past endurance, for, despite her angry mockery, the mania for property had bitten into her and Hugh Barton as well: secretly they respected Eliza's shrewdness and got her advice on property into which he was putting all his surplus earnings.†   (source)
  • Busy with the ache of their own growing pains, his brothers and sisters had little time for him: he was almost six years younger than Luke, the youngest of them, but they exerted over him the occasional small cruelties, petty tormentings by elder children of a younger, interested and excited by the brief screaming insanity of his temper when, goaded and taunted from some deep dream, he would seize a carving knife and pursue them, or batter his head against the walls.†   (source)
  • When she goaded him over them she went forward on his neck.†   (source)
  • He spurred and wheeled his horse and, goading him into a run, headed for the river ford.†   (source)
  • "Yes—a girl!" replied Cleve, hoarsely, as if goaded.†   (source)
  • The sky had an arrogant blue which goaded the nerves like a spur.†   (source)
  • We need to be provoked—goaded like oxen, as we are, into a trot.†   (source)
  • OLIVER, BEING GOADED BY THE TAUNTS OF NOAH, ROUSES INTO ACTION, AND RATHER ASTONISHES HIM†   (source)
  • 'Where!' cried Affery, goaded into another inspection of the keyhole.†   (source)
  • "Yes, he's boasting like a drunkard," added Nastasia, as though with the sole intention of goading him.†   (source)
  • Every sense of the flesh is tortured and every faculty of the soul therewith: the eyes with impenetrable utter darkness, the nose with noisome odours, the ears with yells and howls and execrations, the taste with foul matter, leprous corruption, nameless suffocating filth, the touch with redhot goads and spikes, with cruel tongues of flame.†   (source)
  • [He starts off like a goaded ox in the direction of John Bright, in whose expression there is no sympathy for him†   (source)
  • Late in life he married a second time, a Stockholm woman of questionable character, much younger than he, who goaded him into every sort of extravagance.†   (source)
  • I'll tell that Waggoner was jealous, that he was brutal to Mary, that I believed she was goaded to her mad deed, that I thought she ought to be free.†   (source)
  • Along one side of the room ran a narrow gallery, a few feet from the floor; into which gallery the cattle were driven by men with goads which gave them electric shocks.†   (source)
  • We have seen with what irritation he shirked those little duties which no longer contained any amusement of satisfaction for him, and the open snarls with which, more recently, he resented her irritating goads.†   (source)
  • Usually he submitted with silent dignity to all which he had to go through, but, at times, he was goaded into comment.†   (source)
  • It was sheer frenzy of this sort which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss Turner.†   (source)
  • Las Vegas ran his horse from Widow Cass's cottage to Turner's saloon, and the hoofs of the goaded steed crashed in the door.†   (source)
  • Then he crashed through the doors, and with a wild yell leaped sheer into the saddle, hauling his horse up high and goading him to plunge away.†   (source)
  • When, finally, they sank to their flanks, they had to be dragged and goaded on, and helped by thick flat bunches of spruce boughs placed under their hoofs.†   (source)
  • His presentiments were realized, as we shall see, and his uneasy forebodings had goaded him pale and trembling to the gate under the chestnut-trees.†   (source)
  • The bell-ringing and the band-playing, loud as Tamerlane's trumpet, goaded the downfallen Henchard indescribably: the ousting now seemed to him to be complete.†   (source)
  • Then that keen-sighted monitor, conscience, by reminding them of the retributive justice of all they had endured, goaded them rather to turn the tables on their enemies than to accuse themselves.†   (source)
  • I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.†   (source)
  • I felt strangely goaded on to encounter him in new opposition, to elicit some angry spark from him answerable to my own.†   (source)
  • Goaded by their taunts, their loud, shrill cries, and cruel laughter,—insulted by the filth of the public ways, which they would fling upon him,—or, as it might well be, distracted by the mere strangeness of his situation, though nobody should afflict him with so much as a thoughtless word,—what wonder if Clifford were to break into some wild extravagance which was certain to be interpreted as lunacy?†   (source)
  • At the instant of the dart an ulcerous jet shot from this cruel wound, and goaded by it into more than sufferable anguish, the whale now spouting thick blood, with swift fury blindly darted at the craft, bespattering them and their glorying crews all over with showers of gore, capsizing Flask's boat and marring the bows.†   (source)
  • The book was open at a hymn not ill adapted to their situation, and in which the poet, no longer goaded by his desire to excel the inspired King of Israel, had discovered some chastened and respectable powers.†   (source)
  • She has seen the lovely Claire on her knees, with loosened tresses and streaming eyes, and the rest of them standing over her with spikes and goads and red-hot irons, ready to come down on her if she refuses the tipsy duke.†   (source)
  • in this perfect field, see the chariots, light of wheel, very graceful, and ornate as paint and burnishing can make them—Messala's rich with ivory and gold; let him see the drivers, erect and statuesque, undisturbed by the motion of the cars, their limbs naked, and fresh and ruddy with the healthful polish of the baths—in their right hands goads, suggestive of torture dreadful to the thought—in their left hands, held in careful separation, and high, that they may not interfere with view of the steeds, the reins passing taut from the fore ends of the carriage-poles; let him see the fours, chosen for beauty as well as speed; let him see them in magnificent action, their masters not mor†   (source)
  • The blinded oxen, over-goaded, over-driven, never guided, run into wrong places and are beaten out, and plunge redeyed and foaming at stone walls, and often sorely hurt the innocent, and often sorely hurt themselves.†   (source)
  • A desperate ambition cannot fail to be kindled in a man thus incessantly goaded on by his youth, his wants, his passions, the spirit of his age, his hopes, and his age, his hopes, and his fears.†   (source)
  • All was confusion, confusion, in Mitya's soul, but although many things were goading his heart, at that moment his whole being was yearning for her, his queen, to whom he was flying to look on her for the last time.†   (source)
  • In the pursuit he fearlessly braves the arrow of the Indian and the distempers of the forest; he is unimpressed by the silence of the woods; the approach of beasts of prey does not disturb him; for he is goaded onwards by a passion more intense than the love of life.†   (source)
  • That she knew she was at times a wretched temper; that she knew she made herself hateful; that when she made herself hateful, nothing would do her half the good as being told so; but that, being afflicted with a flat sister, she never WAS told so, and the consequence resulted that she was absolutely tempted and goaded into making herself disagreeable.†   (source)
  • As this goading of the worm that never dies was felt, she arose and signified to Hurry, that she had no more to communicate.†   (source)
  • He chafes and goads me till— Bah!†   (source)
  • 'I shall do you a mischief!' interposed the Jew, goaded by these reproaches; 'a mischief worse than that, if you say much more!'†   (source)
  • I think Miss Pocket was conscious that the sight of me involved her in the danger of being goaded to madness, and perhaps tearing off her cap,—which was a very hideous one, in the nature of a muslin mop,—and strewing the ground with her hair,—which assuredly had never grown on her head.†   (source)
  • While goaded incessantly by these revengeful impulses that in a savage seldom slumber, the chief was still attentive to his more permanent personal interests.†   (source)
  • suborned boys—a numerous band of mercenaries—might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;—it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features.†   (source)
  • 'Pa, I am sorry to say,' returned Miss Fanny, who had by this time succeeded in goading herself into a state of much ill-usage and grievance, which she was often at great pains to do: 'that I believe her to be a friend of that very objectionable and unpleasant person, who, with a total absence of all delicacy, which our experience might have led us to expect from him, insulted us and outraged our feelings in so public and wilful a manner on an occasion to which it is understood among us that we will not more pointedly allude.'†   (source)
  • Goaded by shame and dishonour he fled with his children into a remote corner of Wales, changing his very name that his friends might never know of his retreat; and here, no great while afterwards, he was found dead in his bed.†   (source)
  • This grim chief had thought it a degradation to permit his sister to become the wife of a pale-face of the Yengeese at all, and had only given a reluctant consent to the arrangement-one by no means unusual among the Indians, however—at the earnest solicitations of the bereaved widow; and it goaded him to the quick to find his condescension slighted, the honor he had with so much regret been persuaded to accord, condemned.†   (source)
  • Although far from unfeminine or forward, either in her feelings or her habits, the girl was goaded by a sense of wrongs not altogether merited, incited by the hopelessness of a future that seemed to contain no resting place, and still more influenced by feelings that were as novel to her as they proved to be active and engrossing.†   (source)
  • Passing through these and goading on their team, the goddesses encountered Kronos' son, who sat apart from all the gods on the summit of Olympos.†   (source)
  • as they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the watery glens and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the opposite hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side;—all these, with the cries of the headsmen and harpooneers, and the shuddering gasps of the oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the ivory Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like a wild hen after her screaming brood;—all this wa†   (source)
  • Hutter and Hurry alone remained awake, the former at the steering oar, while the latter brooded over his own conduct, with the stubbornness of one little given to a confession of his errors, and the secret goadings of the worm that never dies.†   (source)
  • Pick out a robe, most lovely and luxurious, most to your liking in the women's hall; place it upon Athena's knees; assure her a sacrifice of heifers, twelve young ones ungoaded ever in their lives, if in her mercy relenting toward our town, our wives and children, she keeps Diomedes out of holy Troy....He is a wild beast now in combat and pursuit.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in ungoaded means not and reverses the meaning of goaded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Goading them on to try and hold us back!†   (source)
  • So the gods would banter
    among themselves but lord Apollo goaded Hermes on:
    "Tell me, Quicksilver, giver of all good things—
    even with those unwieldy shackles wrapped around you,
    how would you like to bed the golden Aphrodite?"†   (source)
  • Parallax stalks behind and goads them, the lancinating lightnings of whose brow are scorpions.†   (source)
  • BLOOM: (Goaded, buttocksmothered) O!†   (source)
  • TEIRESIAS Thou, goading me against my will to speak.†   (source)
  • We plow and till in arms; our oxen feel, Instead of goads, the spur and pointed steel; Th' inverted lance makes furrows in the plain.†   (source)
  • I do presume, sir, that you are not fallen From the report that goes upon your goodness; And therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions, Which lay nice manners by, I put you to The use of your own virtues, for the which I shall continue thankful.†   (source)
  • 12:11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.†   (source)
  • Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled, To appoint myself in this vexation; sully The purity and whiteness of my sheets,— Which to preserve is sleep; which being spotted Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps; Give scandal to the blood o' the prince, my son,— Who I do think is mine, and love as mine,— Without ripe moving to't?†   (source)
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