All 6 Uses of
exasperated
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- …executed a will to that effect; but the Institution, having been unfortunate enough, a few months before, to save the life of a poor relation to whom he paid a weekly allowance of three shillings and sixpence, he had, in a fit of very natural exasperation, revoked the bequest in a codicil, and left it all to Mr Godfrey Nickleby; with a special mention of his indignation, not only against the society for saving the poor relation's life, but against the poor relation also, for allowing…†
Chpt 1
- There was only one drawback upon the pleasure of seeing such friends, and that was, that the lady in the back-parlour, who was very fat, and turned of sixty, came in a low book-muslin dress and short kid gloves, which so exasperated Mrs Kenwigs, that that lady assured her visitors, in private, that if it hadn't happened that the supper was cooking at the back-parlour grate at that moment, she certainly would have requested its representative to withdraw.†
Chpt 14
- 'They are not,' returned Ralph, exasperated at this perseverance, and the thought of Nicholas, which the last question awakened.†
Chpt 44 *
- 'Why, of course it would,' retorted Mr Bray, in an exasperated tone.†
Chpt 47
- By degrees, he grew more angry, and was exasperated by jests and familiarities which, a few hours before, would have been a source of amusement to him.†
Chpt 50
- There he sat, with folded arms; paler than usual, certainly, and sufficiently ill-favoured, but quite collected—far more so than the brothers or the exasperated Tim—and ready to face out the worst.†
Chpt 59
Definition:
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(exasperated) greatly annoyed