"Stung" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the April dawn, for in them, the shepherds said, a strange call came down from the country inland, straying scents of moss and primroses reaching out towards the salt sea, calling men away from the wind-stung levels and the tides and watercourses, to where the little inland farms sleep in the sheltered hollows among the hop-bines, and the sunrise is warm with the ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith
... your army in line of battle, when night is at hand; we need a longer period of daylight for the contest which is to come. Tomorrow at sunrise return to the field: you shall have an opportunity of fighting, never fear." The soldiers, stung by these taunts, were marched back into camp till the following day, thinking that a long night was approaching, which would cause the contest to be delayed. Then indeed they refreshed their bodies with food and sleep: on the following day, when it was ...
— Roman History, Books I-III • Titus Livius
... couldn't help tittering. And somehow their amusement stung her into telling the truth about the whole affair, right then ...
— The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug • Arthur Scott Bailey
... second, in the embarrassment caused to France by the attacks of England upon her colonies and her own sea-coast, in the destruction of her commerce, and in the money—all too little, it is true, and grudgingly given—which France was forced to bestow on her navy. Stung by the constant lashing of the Power of the sea, France, despite the blindness and unwillingness of the rulers, was driven to undertake something against it. With a navy much inferior, unable to cope in all quarters of the world, it was rightly ...
— The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 • A. T. Mahan
... stung to her very heart by her sister's scornful reply, for she had also brought her bow and arrows. They never stirred from camp without them, and squaws were ...
— The Talking Leaves - An Indian Story • William O. Stoddard
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