goadings

I suspect my nonreplies to her goadings were the main reason she deigned to spend so much time in my company-I imagine I was a radical switch from her French friends.

Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992

Which doesn't mean that there won't be grilling and goadings as Lord Patten proceeds to anointment.

Lord Patten's role could be to take the BBC into Europe 2011

And few goadings are more effective than those delivered by cyclists wearing ponchos and Dockers wrapped in Saran Wrap and who are still slightly buzzed from Gowanus Canal fumes.

The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Spring Classics BikeSnobNYC 2009

WILL the loyal if somewhat overly earnest resident posters be able to resist the urge to reply to his entirely contrived and often incoherent goadings?

Darwinopterus and mosaic, modular evolution - The Panda's Thumb 2009

Hornblower had learned to keep a still tongue in his head under the goadings of tyranny when he was a lieutenant in the old Renown under Captain Sawyer's command, but he had well-ligh forgotten those lessons by now, and was having painfully to relearn them.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

Lethean draft, that memory might be robbed of its poignant goadings; that the poor, helpless, and degraded victim might escape its horrors in oblivion.

Fifteen Years in Hell Luther Benson

A moment, and he lies there: no more striving for victory here; no more anxious hours of weary watching for the succor that never came; no more goadings from an exacting public, nor any more appeals to an unheeding chief.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

This respect for Law, when Liberty was as a live coal from a divine altar, adhered to so faithfully for years, in spite, too, of goadings by those who wielded British power, but forgot American right, must be regarded as remarkable.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

He had long ago classed Randle's goadings with heavies and machine-guns, as unavoidable incidents of warfare.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919 Various

Driven to desperation by the goadings of Napoleon and the news that Admiral Rosily was approaching to supersede him, Villeneuve at last resolved to put to sea.

A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916