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«Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.»
«As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.»
«The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility»
«For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Groves, provoking, reed, shaken, smite
«And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abhorred, provoking
«And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: provoking, the Wilderness
«Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: desirous, envying, provoking
«For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Baasha, Elah, provoking, vanities
«It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking»