"Nettled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... up. He had inherited enough of his father's habits to feel nettled at any doubt of his ability, and he rather startled the ...
— Syd Belton - The Boy who would not go to Sea • George Manville Fenn
... Marable joined Lillian in the library that afternoon when the sheriff arrived, and the mother's eager hopes were strengthened to note the serious importance he attached to the discovery of the bit of stone in the pocket of the little red coat. He was obviously nettled that it should have remained there unnoted while the garment was in his keeping, but Lillian tactfully exhibited the unusual inner pocket in the facing, the "shy pocket," which, thus located, offered some excuse for the ...
— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock
... was purple and she reeked of brandy. He sent her to watch the corpse. He instructed her to cover it with a sheet, and to hold herself at the disposal of the commissary and the doctor, who would come for the particulars. She replied, somewhat nettled, that she knew please God, what she had to do. She did indeed know. Madame Simonneau was born in a social circle which is obsequious to the constituted authorities and respects the dead. But when, having questioned Monsieur de Ligny, she learnt that he had dragged the body ...
— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France
... nettled Booth, who protested that he studied faithfully but that his want of confidence ruined him. Mr. Fredericks the stage manager made constant complaints of Booth, who by the way, did not play under his ...
— The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth • George Alfred Townsend
... Becoming nettled at this, he said: "Ho! ho! and so you do not trust me, Monsieur Broussel! Well, I tell you I know at any rate who it is that lies dead out there, for I have been to see, and it will not take long for me to ...
— Orrain - A Romance • S. Levett-Yeats
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