goad

I hit straight out at the face of the thing with the goad.

He knew, or should have known, that would be a goad to him.

He turned off the goad and extended it to me.

He heard the goad in the words, and the implication.

She saw from his expression that her goad had hit home.

My laughter was a goad, so he laughed too, and went on.

She was with each of them, in some fashion, when they reacted to her goad.

Meditation is the goad, the bit and the whip of the mind.

Kim had been right - the words acted on him like a goad.

He threw down his goad and reached forward to her cheek.

I leaped right at him with all my might as the goad flew over me.

"I fear the goad," Elizabeth had told me one night.

"I suggest you let him get a goad night's sleep."

But it did not mean he was in a goad humour too.

He believes Yeltsin is an important goad, but would be dangerous in power.

Either of these would be considered acceptable responses to the familiar goad.

The goad represents what happens in between these two phrases.

She took a deep breath before speaking, and tried to decide if it were a goad or not.

They did a goad job but they hurt him too much.

The goad of sudden sharp memory got him to his feet; he started on, not looking back at them.

Under the goad of an adult voice, they scrambled to obey.

But I do not believe this his sole goad.

It was as though he were being herded by an invisible goad.

"It is not irrational to fear the goad," I said.

I found that the goad, with this monster at least, did not improve, but rather impaired his performance.

"Especially if you keep going out of your way to goad us."

We must try some other way of goading the power back to life.

He was goading her, doing a good job of it actually.

It's the outside interest groups that are goading them into the fight.

He had been goaded by these men and their dogs.

It was just too much fun to goad this man.

This will goad the army into civil war against the Party.

They may have been an attempt to goad her into the race.

She could not let them goad her into doing something stupid.

She would not goad him to use the knife on her.

She knows her time is short and begins to goad him.

She was always trying to goad me into some kind of argument.

Just as I know you goaded me to give up my power in order to save him.

The answer to that question goaded King to greater speed.

She knew he was laughing and the thought goaded her.

"Because he was just trying to goad you," she said.

It can goad people to get things done and even to be more creative.

Then it will be easier to goad him for the money.

Why did it take someone else, another voice, not mine, to goad me into life?

"Which is also why you goaded the men at the inn into following me."

Saying that and thinking of it goads me to go down the hill again.

The thought goaded him like a spur in the side.

Why in heaven's name was she goading him back this way?

Thus the men Turned the beast free - to goad again.

Goading the Prince, making sure he got to the front lines at the right time.