All 3 Uses of
vex
in
Moby Dick
- I began to grow vexed with him; it seemed so downright senseless and insane to be sitting there all day and half the night on his hams in a cold room, holding a piece of wood on his head.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- I have given no small attention to that not unvexed subject, the skin of the whale.†
Chpt 67-69
- Slowly it floats more and more away, the water round it torn and splashed by the insatiate sharks, and the air above vexed with rapacious flights of screaming fowls, whose beaks are like so many insulting poniards in the whale.†
Chpt 67-69
Definition:
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(vex) to annoy or disturb