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Meanings of so provoking in English

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Usage of so provoking in English
1
Don't start when I chance to speak rather sharply; it's so provoking.
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
2
I don't know how it is-thereis something so provoking about him.
Three Dramas
3
How could Charlie be so provoking as to talk about his sorrow!
The Heir of Redclyffe
4
What could possess him to be so provoking and unsentimental to-night?
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations
5
It is so provoking; and him such a valuable animal.
Roughing It in the Bush
6
It has been so provoking, not knowing more about you.
Georgina's Reasons
7
She had never looked, to Raymond, so provoking and tempting.
The Shield of Silence
8
But there was ample cause for that, for never was a man so provoking.
White Shadows in the South Seas
9
It was all so provoking, Isabelle persisted in thinking.
Together
10
I have something else to say, not so provoking.
A Simpleton
11
Upon my word, Miss Jillgall, you are so provoking!
The Legacy of Cain
12
Some of the girls were so provoking.
Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College
13
What shall I do?-Itis so provoking!
Elinor Wyllys; Or, The Young Folk of Longbridge: A Tale. Volume ...
14
You are so provoking when I am just dying to hear about it, cried Stella with a laugh.
Ted Strong in Montana / Or, With Lariat and Spur
15
He might then force a snap election in the hope of winning it and so provoking a constitutional crisis.
Reuters
16
But his manner and his conduct are so provoking and so puzzling, that I cannot altogether repress my irritability.
Vivian Grey
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