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  • Next to "And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness...And this was most vexing of all," he noted, "HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED."†   (source)
  • I had learned that at times like these it was better to just sit and wait than to go asking disrupting questions which might vex her.†   (source)
  • Not only is it created by fanciful people who tire of repetition even more quickly than they tire of being told what to do, it is also vexingly ambiguous.†   (source)
  • Finally, vexed and frustrated, Mary called the only person she knew could find out what had happened.†   (source)
  • You want an animal that is piqued, peeved, vexed, bothered, irked, annoyed—but not homicidal.†   (source)
  • At the end of the proceeding, Herbert was shackled and sent back to death row, vexed, disappointed, and unhappy.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked vexed.†   (source)
  • He stared hopelessly down the index of Basic Hexes for the Busy and Vexed.†   (source)
  • My lord father is quite vexed.†   (source)
  • It's stupid, I know, that his efforts make me so vexed.†   (source)
  • The door was opening, and into the room now came Number Two, looking vexed, followed by Milligan, looking gloomy.†   (source)
  • "This is a vexing business, Mr. Cruse," he said.†   (source)
  • He was vexed to find how little he thought like a grownup and sighed again.†   (source)
  • Are you vexed with me?†   (source)
  • What is it about her vex you so?†   (source)
  • NW: The answer is as vexing as it is predictable, Monsieur Boustouler.†   (source)
  • He was never vexed or irritable but was always happy and free from care.†   (source)
  • "Country girls are slow-moving, vexing creatures," he said.†   (source)
  • The bird hung around, casting his vexed eye down on us from the trees, still needing to be fed.†   (source)
  • Sue Snell gasped laughter from her nose and felt an odd, vexing mixture of hate, revulsion, exasperation, and pity.†   (source)
  • Michael's answers were as nourishing as a bag of stale potato chips, and as vexing as a Rubik's Cube.†   (source)
  • If anything vexed her, it was the perpetual chain of daily meals.†   (source)
  • I couldn't figure out why he was so vexed.†   (source)
  • Something about seeing her out there in the backyard with the other women looking up at the stars vexed him.†   (source)
  • The great butlers are great by virtue of their ability to inhabit their professional role and inhabit it to the utmost; they will not be shaken out by external events, however surprising, alarming or vexing.†   (source)
  • The only thing that vexed him was that the second bowl might still go to Fetiukov.†   (source)
  • Her lack of pretense around others, the steely way she confronted him when he did something wrong, the patience with which she would listen to him as he paced around, struggling with a vexing problem.†   (source)
  • The Amsterdam City Council found the sex tourism and criminality so vexing that in 2003 it ended its experiment with "tolerance zones" for street prostitution, although it retained legal brothels.†   (source)
  • Such people vexed the spirit, and yet one was moved to pity because they were helpless.†   (source)
  • "Two beers!" he shouted at the bartender in his typical vexed way, then stood there and seethed for a second before noticing us.†   (source)
  • All they did was pester and vex and annoy.†   (source)
  • Father is vexed with me.†   (source)
  • Donald's complex advice about achievement and self-awareness often leaves Cedric vexed, but his gravelly voice sounds soothing to the boy and makes him feel at ease.†   (source)
  • It was all vexing, having decisions to make, and yet having no time to think them through.†   (source)
  • The same uncertainties that had vexed him in his first days of command at New York vexed him still.†   (source)
  • Guilt later in Phoenix, where I could evade vexing questions in the daily wheel of work.†   (source)
  • I was certainly very vexed with Bailey.†   (source)
  • Before you vexed me so!†   (source)
  • In the car I stripped off all my jewelry—the seven gold rings; the diamond earrings Larry had given me for Christmas; the sapphire ring from my grandmother; the 1950s man's watch that was always around my wrist; all the earrings from all the extra holes that had so vexed my grandfather.†   (source)
  • "Goodnight white pappy," I said one evening and he was not vexed, he laughed.†   (source)
  • The sight of the scythe blade still upon his workbench vexed me, for I'd asked him to mend it long since, and the timothy now was naught but blown seed head and no longer worth the cutting.†   (source)
  • I have always found this criticism to be vexing and based on both ignorance of ANC history and maliciousness.†   (source)
  • "Mike isn't just 'one of those' computers," I answered, vexed on Mike's account.†   (source)
  • He was no longer a demon riding on her shoulder, demanding her attention and vexing her intellect.†   (source)
  • At times he half floated over the mountains, summoning the memory of almost every woman he had ever known, of all the nudes in paintings subject to his precise and vexing recollection, of the poignant and charged encounters on the streets and in parks, theaters, and lecture halls, where one sees the woman for whom one has to have been born, and then feels the deft and overpowering pain of circumstance as it draws her away, because the train must be caught, dinner is at a certain time, or the store that sells a particular kind of kitchen implement will close in half an hour.†   (source)
  • "Vexing," he said.†   (source)
  • It concerned a minor but vexing problem, one having to do with community relations.†   (source)
  • (Vexedly) Miss Sullivan, I find it difficult to talk through those glasses†   (source)
  • When Kamaswami was ailing, when he was annoyed, when he felt insulted, when he was vexed by his worries as a merchant, Siddhartha had always watched it with mockery.†   (source)
  • And this was most vexing of all.†   (source)
  • It was many months later before I learned how Piedmont had probably handled vexing problems with the semiliterate though obstinate workers who greased looms on the midnight shift and rocked the vessel of obedience in defiance of the invisible capitalists who ruled the mills from far away.†   (source)
  • They brought him a book and what he liked best was a picture of a fat man with a cloth around his head, sitting on a tasseled cushion with a long snakey tube in his mouth, and it said: There was a fat man of Bombay Who was smoking his pipe one fine day When a bird called a snipe Flew away with his pipe, Which vexed that fat man of Bombay.†   (source)
  • BOTARD: [vexed] Yes, yes, I can see it.†   (source)
  • My thoughts are running after bird's eggs, play and trifles, till I get vexed with myself.†   (source)
  • He glanced at the House, and his gray eyes were displeased and vexed.†   (source)
  • the chronic diseases which vex mankind
  • Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.   (source)
  • But this sort of thing seems done on purpose to vex us.   (source)
  • It was no longer amusing to vex Mr. Casaubon   (source)
  • And I'll never - never - oh, never, while I have my senses, do an act or say a word to vex him.   (source)
  • They vex me past my patience.   (source)
  • I didn't mean to vex you and I only meant it for a joke.   (source)
    vex = upset
  • "Gilbert Blythe," answered Anne, vexed to find herself blushing.   (source)
    vexed = disturbed
  • Marilla descended to the kitchen, grievously troubled in mind and vexed in soul.   (source)
  • I'm sorry I've vexed you; but I'm GLAD I told her just what I did.   (source)
    vexed = upset
  • Oh, no, I'm not vexed—don't worry yourself.   (source)
  • "No, indeed, you shall not," said Lucy, much vexed.   (source)
    vexed = annoyed
  • It vexed him the more, because he could have sworn, were such a thing possible, that he recognized the voices of the minister and Deacon Gookin,   (source)
  • Keep on vexing me—bet you I'll scream," he said.†   (source)
  • I just wished he hadn't been so vexed at me when he died.†   (source)
  • "I assure you, Constance," said Number Two, looking vexed, "Mr. Benedict doesn't like it, either.†   (source)
  • I can see that you are vexed by something.†   (source)
  • I was vexed by her thinking of me as an accomplice and didn't know what to say.†   (source)
  • In a vexed tone Constance said, "I was going to say, 'If you get caught, don't worry.†   (source)
  • But tonight, I shall allow Tom his glory, however much it vexes me.†   (source)
  • It vexed me some, but I do respect the dead.†   (source)
  • "I tell you my most personal darkest secret and you laugh," I said, playing vexed.†   (source)
  • Very useful such a horn would be, to pull down Tyroshi and other vexing creatures.†   (source)
  • Don't misunderstand me—you are quite vexing.†   (source)
  • There were times when the Halfmaester vexed him almost as much as that dwarf had.†   (source)
  • Nathanael Greene, in an anguished letter to Henry Knox, said, "I feel mad, vexed, sick, and sorry.†   (source)
  • "Heal him," Lord Tywin said again, vexed.†   (source)
  • While these thoughts were vexing, they brought with them also a chink of light.†   (source)
  • What vexed Adams most was Jefferson's "blind spirit of party.†   (source)
  • People back home will be vexed with us....and many here on Terra would die.†   (source)
  • There stood Sukeena, looking vexed and-dare I say it?†   (source)
  • Our friends of Frey would not have dared vex Ser Kevan the way that they've been vexing me.†   (source)
  • It was a vexing question, to which her heart and head gave different answers.†   (source)
  • "I am vexed," she said, a big gush of wind as from a bellows.†   (source)
  • He was never vexed by nightmares either.†   (source)
  • The Tattered Prince took a sip of wine and said, "A vexing question.†   (source)
  • Tell his High Holiness that we are vexed with him.†   (source)
  • 19 february 1923-rose red 4 P.M. Winter has proved especially vexing and tiresome.†   (source)
  • Who am I, Dear Diary, that I can be so vexed?†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is the repetition of the event that so vexes him.†   (source)
  • And so it is that he must find marriage to me a considerably vexing proposition.†   (source)
  • In the first place, though I am no longer teaching, it is vexing to mislay an entire class.†   (source)
  • This nasty discharge vexed me, even though I thought I understood its source.†   (source)
  • He shifted his weight, clearly vexed.†   (source)
  • Vexed†   (source)
  • Was she vexed by the loss, the free and unasked-for revival of gossip by the man who had helped her cross the river and who was her friend as well as Baby Suggs'?†   (source)
  • His tone implied that Mother failed to grasp our mission, and that her concern with Betty Crocker confederated her with the coin-jingling sinners who vexed Jesus till he pitched a fit and threw them out of church.†   (source)
  • Family language: vexed.†   (source)
  • I am terribly, terribly vexed.†   (source)
  • Vexed?†   (source)
  • "Like coming here vexing me?" he asked.†   (source)
  • "Just keep on vexing me," he said.†   (source)
  • "Just keep on vexing me," he said.†   (source)
  • "Keep on vexing me," he said.†   (source)
  • Just keep on vexing me.†   (source)
  • Don't be vexed.†   (source)
  • As much as he could, Bran preferred to dress himself, but there were some tasks—pulling on breeches, lacing his boots—that vexed him.†   (source)
  • The big ones were apt to be vexing obstacles to our ascent, and when hidden beneath a crust of snow they would pose a serious hazard, but the challenges presented by the crevasses in the Cum had proven over the years to be predictable and manageable.†   (source)
  • That it would arrive he did not doubt; Cersei was not like to forget him, and even Jaime might be vexed to find a quarrel in Father's belly.†   (source)
  • There were the ever-vexing complications of dealing in various colonial currencies of differing value, and the increasing worry over inflation and the fate of the new Continental money, the unbacked paper currency being produced in Philadelphia in steadily greater quantity.†   (source)
  • The whole matter is vexing.†   (source)
  • This does seem a very plausible explanation the more I think about it; for it is true, nothing vexes me more these days than to hear this sort of nonsense being repeated.†   (source)
  • Although I was pleased to have such areception, I was greatly vexed by the fact that I did not have a chance to say good-bye to the prison staff.†   (source)
  • Call was vexed.†   (source)
  • Everything seemed to the advantage of the conquering army, all was going as wished except for one vexing problem that had been growing steadily worse for several weeks.†   (source)
  • I very much wanted his help on the question presently vexing many of us, and which we all realize is crucial to how we should shape our foreign policy.†   (source)
  • Since the rector was so vexed with us over the bramble charms, I thought to try this'n, in its stead.†   (source)
  • John Quincy was vexed—"forgive me my dear father for saying i t" — that Adams had not paid greater homage to the "mighty consequences" of July 4, 1776.†   (source)
  • "Fellows's and Parsons's whole brigade[s] ran away from about fifty men," Greene reported to a friend, "and left his Excellency on the ground within eighty yards of the enemy, so vexed at the infamous conduct of the troops that he sought death rather than life."†   (source)
  • He addressed the matter of prizes taken at sea by American privateers, and gave all possible attention to the vexing issue of what to do about American prisoners of war held by the British and those British prisoners taken on the high seas who were being held in France.†   (source)
  • How vexing.†   (source)
  • Why does he insist on vexing me?†   (source)
  • It was vexing.†   (source)
  • It is quite vexing.†   (source)
  • 13 march 1909-rose red I hesitate to put down into words my thoughts on this day, for I am vexed indeed by what happened here this afternoon.†   (source)
  • Particularly vexing is that had any of those under our employ encountered Mr. Posey, he or she is not in the position to report it.†   (source)
  • And still, I have no answer, though evidence presents itself to support my theory, for this disappearance has vexed my husband greatly, far beyond the vanishing of Mrs. Fauxmanteur.†   (source)
  • You find them vexing.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: (vexed).†   (source)
  • When the white people found out she was telling lies and refused to fire the servants Molly vexed them and vexed them till they quit them-self.†   (source)
  • I realize now how intensely discontented, rebellious and troubled I was at that age, but also how my writing had kept serious emotional distress safely at bay, in the sense that the novel I was working on served as a cathartic instrument through which I was able to discharge on paper many of my more vexing tensions and miseries.†   (source)
  • The gods are doing their best to vex us.†   (source)
  • Don't vex me about this, Ned, the stone has been set.†   (source)
  • "If I turn my back on you," he shouted above the wind, "you might appear again to vex me!"†   (source)
  • Only Renly could vex me so with a piece of fruit.†   (source)
  • The worst she shall do is vex you to death.†   (source)
  • The question seemed to vex Lord Bracken.†   (source)
  • Then only Stannis himself will remain to vex us.†   (source)
  • Our friends of Frey would not have dared vex Ser Kevan the way that they've been vexing me.†   (source)
  • Rosby's ward was not the only one to vex us, Your Grace.†   (source)
  • Rosby's coughing had begun to vex her.†   (source)
  • Oh, how you vex me.†   (source)
  • There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me.†   (source)
  • The business of the sign worried him, one more evidence of Augustus's ability to vex well beyond the grave.†   (source)
  • Or to vex me with arguments?†   (source)
  • Ah, yes, I hear these naughty ones go to vex you, Mees Marsch.†   (source)
  • It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us.†   (source)
  • — my visit to the still vexed Bermoothes, was this.†   (source)
  • "Voilà ce qui est embatant," muttered Poirot vexedly.†   (source)
  • The good Archbishop would be vexed If we did not offer you entertainment Before your business.†   (source)
  • Gant thought of the years between, and the vexed pattern of fate.†   (source)
  • Soon after this he left, looking quite vexed.†   (source)
  • Now, don't be vexed with me, dear, for saying that.†   (source)
  • The Conde Vicente d'Abuirre must not be vexed, even through his half-wit mother-in-law.†   (source)
  • Why, what's wrong with that coffee?" said Eliza, vexed.†   (source)
  • "It is inhuman," she said in a vexed way, and began to do her hair.†   (source)
  • You don't even care to hear what vexes me.†   (source)
  • No random cuff did you get from him when he was vexed.†   (source)
  • Now just what is vexing you?†   (source)
  • And there is one small vexing fact.†   (source)
  • Cottard seemed vexed and said that on the contrary he was always going out, and, if need arose, all the people in the street could vouch for him.†   (source)
  • There was Morton of Merry Mount, who so vexed the Plymouth Colony, with his flushed, loose, handsome face and his hate of the godly.†   (source)
  • While Father Vaillant was at Tucson he had received a letter from his brother Marius, in Auvergne, and was vexed that so much of it was taken up with inquiries about the gold rush to Colorado, of which he had never heard, while Marius gave him but little news of the war in Italy, which seemed relatively near and much more important.†   (source)
  • The Commissioner looked vexed about it.†   (source)
  • He fretted until Scarlett who had only been waiting for such an opportunity laid a cool hand on his forehead and said: "Now, sweetheart, I shall be vexed if you take on so.†   (source)
  • Bombur slept on with a smile on his fat face, as if he no longer cared for all the troubles that vexed them.†   (source)
  • It was all right when he was businesslike, but he had peculiar moods, when his voice straggled, he was in woe, his hair in spikes and his color bloodshot, tears or anger in his voice, and much too vexed and bothered to talk to me about Aristotle and theories of happiness and so forth.†   (source)
  • "Là-là,"said Poirot vexedly.†   (source)
  • He drew the rather odd conclusion that the old fellow was either dead or vexed-if vexed, the reason being that he had thought that he was right and the plague had put him in the wrong; if dead, the question was (as in the case of the old asthmatic) had he been a saint?†   (source)
  • I'll vow, Mr. Gant," Eliza was vexed.†   (source)
  • During the babyhood of each child she had been too busy, too worried with money matters, too sharp and easily vexed, to win their confidence or affection.†   (source)
  • All of his sin, all of his pain, all the vexed weariness of his soul were washed away in that deep radiance: the tumult and evil of life dropped from him its foul and ragged cloak.†   (source)
  • He thought, "She is certainly ageing, and I ought not to be vexed with anything she says."†   (source)
  • Ah, my poor Francoise, the dear Lord must be sorely vexed with us.†   (source)
  • He was biting his thumb, and after a while noticed me with a sidelong vexed look.†   (source)
  • If I have vexed you it is equally true that I have neglected you.†   (source)
  • She was vexed with him for staying out there.†   (source)
  • For weeks together he noticed nothing but clients and the vexing To Rent signs of rival brokers.†   (source)
  • He was vexed with her for having shown her ill-temper before strangers.†   (source)
  • He could not understand it, and it more than vexed him.†   (source)
  • 'How did that ivory come all this way?' growled the elder man, who seemed very vexed.†   (source)
  • The two went away together, still laughing, and Enoch crept off to his room trembling and vexed.†   (source)
  • "I'm vexed, sir, about the boat," says the captain.†   (source)
  • [vexed] I suppose this person was the manager†   (source)
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