goad
Definition: to urge, to provoke into action
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Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...Obedient to the goad of grief, Her steps, now fast, now lingering slow, In varying motion seek relief From the Eumenides of woe ....
The Wouldbegoods - By E. Nesbit, Reginald Bathurst Birch
...You 'll see, " Alice said, " he wo n't want a goad ....
The Prince and the Pauper - By Mark Twain
...Presently they began to taunt him and mock at him, purposely to goad him into a higher and still more entertaining fury ....
Pilgrim's Progress - By John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Frank Cheyne Pape
...They shewed him Moses1 Rod; the Hammer and Nail with which Jael slew Sisera; the Pitchers, Trumpets and Lamps too, with which Gideon put to flight the Armies of Midian : Then they shewed him the Ox 's goad wherewith Shamgar slew six hundred men : They shewed him also the Jaw-bone with which Samson did such mighty feats : They shewed him moreover the Sling and Stone with which David slew Goliah of Gath; and the Sword also with which their Lord will kill the Man of...
The House of Mirth - By Edith Wharton, A. B. Wenzell
...Her soft nature recoiled from this ordeal, which had none of the stimulus of conflict to goad her through it ....
Don Quixote - By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...The latter two or three times attempted to ask where they were taking him to and what they wanted, but the instant he began to open his lips they threatened to close them with the points of their lances; and Sancho fared the same way, for the moment he seemed about to speak one of those on foot punched him with a goad, and Dapple likewise, as if he too wanted to talk ....
Middlemarch - By George Eliot
...Follows here the strict receipt For that sauce to dainty meat, Named Idleness, which many eat By preference, and call it sweet : First-watch for morsels, like a hound, Mix will with tu_f els, stir thtm round With goad thick oil of flatteries, And froth-with mean self-lauding lies ....
Ben-Hur - By Lew Wallace, Joseph Autier
...The man stood by the animal 's head, holding a leading-strap, and leaning upon a stick which seemed to have been chosen for the double purpose of goad and staff ....
Villette - By Charlotte Bront
...The fancy became rooted in my own mind more stubbornly than ever, that she was only coquetting to goad him, and that, at heart, she coveted every one of his words and looks ....
Our Mutual Friend - By Charles Dickens
...Then soberly and plainly, Mortimer, I goad the schoolmaster to madness ....
The Deerslayer, Or, The First War-path - By James Fenimore Cooper
...while the latter brooded over his own conduct with the stubbornness of one little given to a confession of his errors, and the secret goad-ings of the worm that never dies ....
The Warden - By Anthony Trollope
...He could not continue his action after pledging himself to abandon it; nor was there any revenge in that--it was the very step to which his enemy had endeavored to goad him !...
The American - By Henry James
...One of the cl verest and most pleasing stories it Has been our goad fortune to meetwith for some time . '...
Essays - By Ralph Waldo Emerson
...That non-conformity will remain a goad and remembrancer, and every inquirer will have to dispose of him, in the first place ....