"Riled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... here we are. I came to the side door so I wouldn't have to introduce you to any of the boys this morning, for we want to have a talk with the Governor before dinner and I don't dare keep Kizzie waiting. It riles her, and a riled woman burns up things: masters, husbands, cooking or worse. Come on." And as we walked up the broad side steps of that Mansion of the Gouverneur, my Uncle Robert's hand was on my arm and I felt that ...
— The Daredevil • Maria Thompson Daviess
... Oh, you mean Turner! Well, I reckon you must have riled Turner somehow, and he thought he'd ...
— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt
... kind o' riled to find that I am your cousin," said Abner. "Now, Fitz, that's foolish. I aint rich, to be sure, but I'm respectable. I don't drink nor chew, and I've got five hundred dollars laid away ...
— Risen from the Ranks - Harry Walton's Success • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... the financial pollercy jest sooted my idees, Thet I friz down right where I wuz, merried the Widder Shennon, (Her thirds wuz part in cotton-land, part in the curse o' Canaan,) An' here I be ez lively ez a chipmunk on a wall, With nothin' to feel riled about much ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... could turn it up for $50; but I told him I did not want to bet with him, since he had never seen the game before. At last I consented to go him once. He turned the card and lost, and then I thought that George would die with laughter. This only riled the Judge, who was now bent on getting even; so he put up his gold watch and chain, and lost them. He was satisfied then, and the next day sent around a friend and ...
— Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi • George H. Devol
... pause while he carefully rolled and lighted a cigarette. "I reckon so. When we topped out an' I went to help her down, she wuz right smart riled." ...
— I Married a Ranger • Dama Margaret Smith
... riled about it," said Crewe; "it has just been my luck, that's all. Well, I want to take advantage ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace
... fire" until it goes to a public school. And there it straddled, two scarlet cheeks puffed out with rage, soft flaxen hair streaming, cerulean eyes glowing, the poker grasped in two chubby fists. It had poked a window in vague ire, and now threatened two females with extinction if they riled it any more. ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... off his faded hat, his brow wrinkling deep, and said, in a drawling preacher tone that had no sound of D'ri in it: "O God, tek care o' gran'ma. Help us t' go on careful, an' when we 're riled, help us t' keep er mouths shet. O God, help the ol' cart, an' the ex in pertic'lar. An' don't be noway hard on ...
— D'Ri and I • Irving Bacheller |
