provokingly

"It seems the bride is getting all the attention," she said softly, provokingly.

He let the question hang provokingly in the air.

On the next day the weather still showed no sign of change, but kept provokingly and obstinately fair.

Outside, a mocking bird, perched provokingly near her window, kept the night ringing with music.

As naive as Jasleen is, she questions the men provokingly.

And our bore is so provokingly self-denying about him! '

They come provokingly short, too; just plucking at the hook, and running out a foot of line or so, then taking their departure.

His confidence in the power and performance of his nation makes him provokingly incurious about other nations.

"Then buy me one," laughed the old gentle-man, winking provokingly.

He extended a provokingly casual and superior hand.

The picture that presented itself was provokingly comical.

She paused while Juliette still looked provokingly innocent.

He was provokingly delayed, by one misfortune after another, but at last got his expedition under way at the end of the year 1681.

She looked provokingly calm, cool, and indifferent.

"You were there, too, citizen," she said provokingly.

She was, it must be admitted, sometimes provokingly and unnecessarily willing to saddle herself with manual labours.

I suppose that, in the grand immunity his death conferred on her, poor Lena had become provokingly possessive.

There were no hyphens in the double epithets, and words like "tendriltwine" seemed provokingly affected.

Pitt paused and stared at Specter provokingly.

"Well, because it is provokingly wrong.

She provokingly stopped there.

Regardless of this whispered remonstrance, and affecting not to hear it, his tormentor provokingly continued: 'Single men have had daughters before now.

Photographs by this cool California Conceptualist have a glossy lucidity but are provokingly opaque as images.

Willie became bored and exasperated, and at the same time found May looking more and more provokingly beautiful.

'You haven't changed, I see,' remarked Ethel provokingly.