"Nettled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 dinner the ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... philosophic, impassive accent of her voice, and not feeling at all flattered, the young man added in rather a nettled tone: ...
— Six Women • Victoria Cross
... she said, a little nettled that he should be unsatisfied with her company, "you didn't mention Denys specially and she is always at the Blanket Club on Mondays, so I didn't even tell her I was coming, but I did bring Maudie, only we got late somehow and there wasn't time to bring her round, so I left her on the other ...
— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh
... the fate of our Ambassador In China, and was sorely nettled; But think, my Lord, we should not pass it o'er Till all this matter's fairly settled; And here's the mode occurs to me:— As none of our Nobility, Tho' for their own most gracious King (They would kiss hands, or—anything), Can be persuaded to go thro' This farce-like trick ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... courted, and this rather nettled him; however, he soon learned that she received nobody except a few religious friends of her ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various
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