All 5 Uses of
vex
in
Emma
- EMMA BY JANE AUSTEN VOLUME I CHAPTER I Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.†
Chpt 1.1-2
- He was very much vexed.†
Chpt 1.7-8 *
- She was vexed.†
Chpt 1.15-16
- —She did look vexed, she did speak pointedly—and at last, with a decision of action unusual to her, proposed a removal.†
Chpt 3.5-6
- She was vexed beyond what could have been expressed—almost beyond what she could conceal.†
Chpt 3.7-8
Definition:
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(vex) to annoy or disturb