It might excite suspicion.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
She did not realize that it took really very little to excite the Crevequers and Luli.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
These things, as Mrs. Acton admitted, counted for something, while the faint lines upon his face, and the suggestive hardness that now and then crept into it, were, she decided, likely to excite a young woman's curiosity.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton