Use stung in a sentence
Sentences starting with stung
- Stung by the slanderous report of an anonymous eavesdropper to whom the government of the day was not ashamed to listen, he had quitted Vienna, too hastily, it may be, but wounded, indignant, feeling that he had been unworthily treated. [6]
- Stung to the quick, she tore her affections from him and bestowed them with tenfold power upon the lawyer, who responded with consuming zeal. [5]
- Stung by his insolence, "I would not throw a rope to you, if you were drowning," she declared. [11]
Sentences ending with stung
- The King was stung. [5]
- Her pride was stung. [5]
- I slapped his face--nay, boxed it so that my palm stung. [9]
- That stung. [5]
Sentences containing stung two or more times
- It hit a foible of our American aristocracy, and it stung me--I admit that; it stung me sharply. [5]
- Mr. Stoker's church, and the words he had just listened to were those of a sinful old heathen who had never heard a sermon in his life; but they stung him, for all that, as the parable of the prophet stung the royal transgressor. [6]
More example sentences with the word stung in them
- Then Barbara started up as if a hornet had stung her. [10]
- She was stung to the quick by the comments of the newspapers; her spirit was roused, her ambition was towering, now. [5]
- Our opponents, stung to madness by the defeat of 1840, have ever since rallied with more than their usual unanimity. [7]
- From time to time I was roused into admiration of the horsemanship of Madame la Vicomtesse, for the restive Texas pony which she rode was stung to madness by the flies. [9]
- Katharina started as though an asp had stung her and turned round on the woman who had dared to insult her so grossly and so boldly. [10]
- The opposition within the Union party had stung him to the quick. [7]
- He had spoken the truth, and Carmen's last lover had been stung as though a serpent's tooth was in his flesh. [11]
- And high above the tier of his accusers he saw one face, and the look of it stung to the very quick of his soul. [9]
- It stung like the thrust of a stiletto. [6]
- The thought of that moment stung him with confusion and shame. [4]
- Then refilling the tankard, he poured a libation, and was about to empty it to Melissa's health, but Praxilla's lean frame was standing by his side as quickly as though a serpent had stung her. [10]
- His pompous words stung me like the lash of a whip, and I gave no heed to his cloth as I answered: "If I have grieved my grandfather, sir, I am heartily sorry, and will answer to him for what I have done. [9]
- The insult had stung her, had driven her back into a reserve, out of which she seemed unable to emerge. [11]
- Some may be stung back into life, spurred on to find out what the world really is, but not many. [9]
- But the widow, starting as if stung by a scorpion, denounced Katterle as an impudent hussy, who rightfully belonged in the stocks, to which the base injustice of the money-bags in the court had condemned her. [10]
- Presently, as he over-hastily opened a hive, some bees stung his hand badly; I ran to him and drew the stings out. [10]
- As he poured out a glass of water, however, the thought stung him that the nature of the success and its value depended on the nature of the love and its value. [11]
- Seeking for surcease of pain, Pilgrim to Lethe I came; Drank not, for pride was too keen-- Stung by the sound of a name. [11]
- Those words of Mrs. Colfax's stung Stephen to righteous anger and resentment--for Virginia. [9]
- When Wrangle's long mane, lashing in the wind, stung Venters in the cheek, the sting added a beat to his flying pulse. [13]
- Nothing of the jungle had been in their thoughts, though they had been tempted, and love and the moment's despair had stung them to take revenge in each other's arms; yet they had kept the narrow path. [11]
- He had buried it, the village had forgotten it,--such of it as knew,--and the remembrance of it stung him. [11]
- Hermon started as if stung by a scorpion, and asked, "Where is she? [10]
- But the later hours spent in the garden under the stars, the cheerful hum of the boulevards coming to them distantly, stung his veins like good wine. [11]
- Once or twice his words stung his judges like whips across their faces. [11]
- He could see her now with the name "murderer" on her quivering lips; the word had stung him like a lance-thrust. [10]
- Nelly Nealy put her damages at one hundred and fifty thousand and stung him for seventy five. [9]
- The imputation that he of all men had the least right to resent denial; that, dishonest still, he was willing to justify her privately though not publicly; that repentance should have been open to the world--it all stung him. [11]
- Tom, Tom, you have lifted a heavy load from my heart; I was stung to the very soul when I seemed to have discovered that I had a coward in my family. [5]
- Cupid be, "The hapless heart that's stung by thee? [10]
- Her last words had stung him so, her manner was so pitilessly scornful. [11]
- But Lady Haldwell had been stung by Mrs. Armour's remark, and it piqued her that this was possible. [11]
- That stung me, for not only was the young lady looking on with a sort of superior pity, as I thought, but her brother was murmuring to her under his breath with a provoking smile. [11]
- It served him excellently well, and stung her back again to her senses very quickly. [6]
- That was her condemnation of me, and it stung me more than had a thousand sermons. [9]
- I was stung, but I was obliged to admire the easy confidence with which my chief loafed from side to side of his wheel, and trimmed the ships so closely that disaster seemed ceaselessly imminent. [5]
- I killed it before it stung me. [11]
- The matron started as though a scorpion had stung her. [10]
- It stung me as if I had been hit instead. [5]
- This stung her, and she would bring him to his knees, if she could. [11]
- Anger died away, and I saw only a youth flushed with wine, stung by suggestions, with that foolish pride the youngster feels--and he was the youngest of them all--in being as good a man as the best, and as daring as the worst. [11]
- This conduct of an insolent petty chieftain stung the Sultan to the quick, and he swore that he would slaughter Raynauld with his own hand, no matter how, or when, or where he found him. [5]
- Other taunts followed, added mockings stung him, and he exclaimed-- "I tell ye again, you pack of unmannerly curs, I am the Prince of Wales! [5]
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