provocation
provokement old use

Now, with a good deal less than provocation, they call the police.

But many people find provocation enough in real life, and so they read for something else.

Not like him to go off the deep end, whatever the provocation.

We would like to see an end to these provocations.

No one who knows will say what the provocations were.

He did not challenge her, although the provocation was great.

"Nature" is by no means the choice of least provocation.

With a little more provocation, she just might beat you to death!

I think most of the provocation was coming from the other direction.

He learned that men killed with less provocation than women.

And if he'd said all that without provocation, there'd be only one course of action.

All my life, you've held firm no matter what the provocation.

One fear now is that he may again try a similar provocation.

He has done terrible things to us, and without any provocation.

They killed our people without provocation, and we've lost months that should have been spent running them down.

Clearly it was a provocation, a challenge to the new system.

He did not think the old man would shoot without provocation.

He started one to his father and then, without provocation, began to cry.

For a while this spring, it seemed as though the old issue had a new provocation.

Given any provocation at all from you, I'll give him a second command.

She was a woman upon whose action under provocation you could never count.

However, he'd been given more provocation than most men would have suffered before taking action.

"Just as you will not shoot me down in the street without provocation."

He did not like the man; yet the fellow had given him no provocation.

With only a little more provocation, he would kill everyone who stood there.