Stoner and McWade exchanged a meaning glance-it was not lost upon their attentive audience-but the latter shrugged and smiled provocatively.
"Flowing Gold"
Rex Beach
She wrote to him frequently-short, airy epistles, wholly inconsequent, often provocatively meagre.
"The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories"
Ethel M. Dell
Thorne imagined that this intimation, which struck him as a trifle superfluous, was made with a deliberate purpose; but one of the binder horses, tormented by the flies, began to kick just then, and he turned away to quiet it, while Lucy, who stood beside the wagon, smiled provocatively at Alison.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss