Mrs. Morton couldn't help feeling a trifle nettled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

This nettled the owner, who was proud of his paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

"And what did you do?" said Picton, a little nettled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

This attitude of ignorance and innocence nettled him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Feather] Reference

This nettled me and made me wish I had held my tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncanny Tales] Reference

But Lawrence, unreasonably nettled, broke out hotly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wikkey A Scrap] Reference

Slowly he brought the nettled trotters down to a walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

"I don't doubt that," the old doctor said, a bit nettled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

She was nettled that he should be oblivious of his lapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

I saw that this nettled Mrs. Sprague, but she said nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

"And why not Simeon, pray?" asked Stephen, slightly nettled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

The hint of authority beyond his superiors nettled them both.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

The heavy accent on the word "sound" nettled Linane somewhat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference

This neglect on the part of Muro and Uraso may have nettled him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages] Reference

"Certainly not," he answered, a little nettled at the man's tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

"Truthfully disagreeable apparently," said Paul, a little nettled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village by the River] Reference

Hoffland wrung his hands with a nettled look, which made him resemble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

"Oh, I didn't mean any pecuniary recompense," he said, a little nettled.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

I felt a little nettled at his desire to get away and did not detain him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

First, he was nettled by his friend's use of the words "poor little thing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference

"And you seem to have a talent for incivility," retorts she, rather nettled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

"What are you laughing at?" she demanded, not a little nettled by his manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Dreams Come True] Reference

This nettled Jim, who did not sympathize with his friend's extravagance at times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference

He had not been solemn and poky, as she had prophesied, and the fact nettled her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference

"They did no such thing," replied Eleanor, nettled by her cousin's bantering tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference

"I presume so," said Father Letheby, a little nettled, "and why don't you go there?".    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

It nettled a woman's soft ambition; which is, to be as well loved as ever woman was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference

"The grand piano, by all means," replied Miss Keith, nettled by her companion's words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Gold] Reference

"Oh, pray don't let that be any consideration," replied Montague, now somewhat nettled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belles and Ringers] Reference

"Did you ever see any before?" demanded Cherry suspiciously, nettled by her sister's manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Little Brown House] Reference

"The Commissioner of Track" is what those he's nettled call him behind his back, facetiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Long Leap Of Faith] Reference

"Well," replied Smith, somewhat nettled, "you can make up your mind she has wide experience.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pirate of Parts] Reference

"Oh, yes, I see," said I, feeling rather nettled, I confess, at his thus taking a rise out of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference

"That's nothing to what Billiard's did to him," Susie retorted sharply, nettled at her reception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

In another moment the nettled marshal had Bob by the shoulder and was whirling him out of the car.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

A little nettled, Larry caught the next one full and square and it sailed far out into right field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference