All 20 Uses of
vex
in
Middlemarch
- Here was something really to vex her about Dodo: it was all very well not to accept Sir James Chettam, but the idea of marrying Mr. Casaubon!†
Chpt 1 *
- You look vexed.†
Chpt 1
- With this feeling uppermost, he continued to waive the question of the chaplaincy, and to persuade himself that it was not only no proper business of his, but likely enough never to vex him with a demand for his vote.†
Chpt 2
- When the General Board of the Infirmary had met, however, and Lydgate had notice that the question of the chaplaincy was thrown on a council of the directors and medical men, to meet on the following Friday, he had a vexed sense that he must make up his mind on this trivial Middlemarch business.†
Chpt 2
- He knew that this would vex Mary: very well; then she must tell him what else he could do.†
Chpt 4
- He was an open-minded man, but given to indirect modes of expressing himself: when he was disappointed in a market for his silk braids, he swore at the groom; when his brother-in-law Bulstrode had vexed him, he made cutting remarks on Methodism; and it was now apparent that he regarded Fred's idleness with a sudden increase of severity, by his throwing an embroidered cap out of the smoking-room on to the hall-floor.†
Chpt 4
- Here is the land they've been all along expecting for Fred, which it seems the old man never meant to leave him a foot of, but left it to this side-slip of a son that he kept in the dark, and thought of his sticking there and vexing everybody as well as he could have vexed 'em himself if he could have kept alive.†
Chpt 4
- Here is the land they've been all along expecting for Fred, which it seems the old man never meant to leave him a foot of, but left it to this side-slip of a son that he kept in the dark, and thought of his sticking there and vexing everybody as well as he could have vexed 'em himself if he could have kept alive.†
Chpt 4
- Will was feeling rather vexed and miserable, and found nothing to say on his side.†
Chpt 5
- He seemed vexed.†
Chpt 5
- No, no; it must be something else if he were really vexed, Ladislaw is a sort of gypsy; he thinks nothing of leather and prunella.†
Chpt 5
- He had been inwardly annoyed, however, when he had asked at the Infirmary about the woman he had recommended two days before, to hear from the house-surgeon, a youngster who was not sorry to vex Minchin with impunity, exactly what had occurred: he privately pronounced that it was indecent in a general practitioner to contradict a physician's diagnosis in that open manner, and afterwards agreed with Wrench that Lydgate was disagreeably inattentive to etiquette.†
Chpt 5
- Something had vexed you before you came in, you looked cross.†
Chpt 5
- What vexed you?†
Chpt 5
- Will easily felt happy when nothing crossed his humor, and by this time the thought of vexing Mr. Casaubon had become rather amusing to him, making his face break into its merry smile, pleasant to see as the breaking of sunshine on the water—though the occasion was not exemplary.†
Chpt 5
- It was no longer amusing to vex Mr. Casaubon, who had the advantage probably of watching him and seeing that he dared not turn his head.†
Chpt 5
- Besides, you have got a wrong notion in your head as usual, Dodo—I can see that: it vexes me.†
Chpt 5
- She was vexed and disappointed, but she was bent on abstaining from useless words.†
Chpt 6
- Here is Elinor," continued the provoking husband; "she vexed her friends by me: I had hardly a thousand a-year—I was a lout—nobody could see anything in me—my shoes were not the right cut—all the men wondered how a woman could like me.†
Chpt 8
- "Nay, nay; work is my delight, child, when it doesn't vex your mother.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(vex) to annoy or disturb