All 11 Uses of
vex
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Much vexed by this reflection, Mr Squeers looked at the little boy to see whether he was doing anything he could beat him for.†
Chpt 4 *
- This was told her in the London newspapers—not by Mr Squeers, for he is too kind and too good to set anybody against anybody—and it has vexed her so much, Mobbs can't think.†
Chpt 8
- 'Then do not vex itself,' said Mr Mantalini; 'he shall be horse-whipped till he cries out demnebly.'†
Chpt 10
- 'Why will it vex itself, and twist its little face into bewitching nutcrackers?' said Mantalini, putting his left arm round the waist of his life and soul, and drawing her towards him with his right.†
Chpt 21
- 'It is all over; there will be nothing the matter; money shall be got in; and if it don't come in fast enough, old Nickleby shall stump up again, or have his jugular separated if he dares to vex and hurt the little—'†
Chpt 21
- He looked again, and felt, for the moment, almost vexed that Kate was not there to exchange one word at parting.†
Chpt 22
- 'I never was so vexed—never!†
Chpt 24
- 'I met them at my uncle's,' said Kate, vexed to feel that she was colouring deeply, but unable to keep down the blood which rushed to her face whenever she thought of that man.†
Chpt 28
- 'You won't vex me, child, with such airs as these,' said the late Miss Price, assuming the matron.†
Chpt 42
- If there is any one thing that vexes me in these losses more than the losses themselves, I do protest and declare,' said Mrs Nickleby, rubbing her nose with an impassioned air, 'that it is to have people about me who take things with such provoking calmness.'†
Chpt 43
- 'Mr Linkinwater says ten minutes, but I cannot let you go so soon; Nicholas would be very much vexed, I am sure.†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(vex) to annoy or disturb