All 18 Uses of
vex
in
The Mill on the Floss
- "Ah," said Luke, "but he'll be fine an' vexed, as the rabbits are all dead."†
Chpt 1.4
- The knife would do not good on the ground there; it wouldn't vex Tom; and pride or resentment was a feeble passion in Bob's mind compared with the love of a pocket-knife.†
Chpt 1.6
- As it was, she was actually beginning to think that she should like to make Lucy cry by slapping or pinching her, especially as it might vex Tom, whom it was of no use to slap, even if she dared, because he didn't mind it.†
Chpt 1.10
- Mr. Glegg's unmistakable kind-heartedness was shown in this, that it pained him more to see his wife at variance with others,—even with Dolly, the servant,—than to be in a state of cavil with her himself; and the quarrel between her and Mr. Tulliver vexed him so much that it quite nullified the pleasure he would otherwise have had in the state of his early cabbages, as he walked in his garden before breakfast the next morning.†
Chpt 1.12
- But perhaps you'd have had me stay and be swore at, Mr. Glegg; perhaps you was vexed not to hear more abuse and foul language poured out upo' your own wife.†
Chpt 1.12
- because it will vex him so. You never saw Yap; he's a queer little dog,——nobody cares about him but Tom and me."†
Chpt 2.6
- "But my father's very much vexed, I dare say?" he added, looking at Maggie, and thinking that her agitated face was only part of her girlish way of taking things.†
Chpt 2.7
- "Oh, Tom!" said Maggie, in a tone of sad remonstrance; but she had no spirit to dispute anything then, still less to vex Tom by opposing him.†
Chpt 3.1
- Tom was vexed; it was no use to talk so.†
Chpt 3.3
- It was piteous to see the comely woman getting thinner and more worn under a bodily as well as mental restlessness, which made her often wander about the empty house after her work was done, until Maggie, becoming alarmed about her, would seek her, and bring her down by telling her how it vexed Tom that she was injuring her health by never sitting down and resting herself.†
Chpt 4.2
- The want of that coincidence vexed him, and set his mind at work in an irritating way.†
Chpt 5.7
- At last there was total stillness, and poor Tulliver's dimly lighted soul had forever ceased to be vexed with the painful riddle of this world.†
Chpt 5.7
- I should like to be a comfort to you, not to vex you.†
Chpt 6.4
- Stephen was vexed and disappointed; he thought perhaps Maggie didn't like the name of Wakem to be mentioned to her in that abrupt way, for he now recalled what Lucy had told him of the family quarrel.†
Chpt 6.6
- Stephen rose too, and picking up the ball, met her with a vexed, complaining look that gave his eyes quite a new expression to Maggie, whose own eyes met them as he presented the ball to her.†
Chpt 6.6
- "Won't you come out a little way into the garden?" said Stephen, in a still gentler tone; but the next moment he was vexed that she did not say "No," for she moved away now toward the open window, and he was obliged to take his hat and walk by her side.†
Chpt 6.6
- And Stephen purchased absolutely nothing from Maggie, until Lucy said, in rather a vexed undertone,— "See, now; all the things of Maggie's knitting will be gone, and you will not have bought one.†
Chpt 6.9
- "No, indeed, you shall not," said Lucy, much vexed.
Chpt 6.13 *vexed = annoyed
Definition:
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(vex) to annoy or disturb