All 7 Uses of
vex
in
Jane Eyre
- It little mattered whether my curiosity irritated him; I knew the pleasure of vexing and soothing him by turns; it was one I chiefly delighted in, and a sure instinct always prevented me from going too far; beyond the verge of provocation I never ventured; on the extreme brink I liked well to try my skill.†
p. 183.5vexing = annoying
- Look wicked, Jane: as you know well how to look: coin one of your wild, shy, provoking smiles; tell me you hate me — tease me, vex me; do anything but move me: I would rather be incensed than saddened.†
p. 325.4
- I will tease you and vex you to your heart's content, when I have finished my tale: but hear me to the end.†
p. 325.5 *
- I was vexed with you for getting out of my sight.†
p. 361.3vexed = annoyed
- "We are now without father: we shall soon be without home and brother," she murmured, At that moment a little accident supervened, which seemed decreed by fate purposely to prove the truth of the adage, that "misfortunes never come singly," and to add to their distresses the vexing one of the slip between the cup and the lip.†
p. 410.7vexing = annoying
- And when I returned, sometimes a good deal tired, and not a little weather-beaten, I never dared complain, because I saw that to murmur would be to vex him: on all occasions fortitude pleased him; the reverse was a special annoyance.†
p. 458.2
- That is a fiction — an impudent invention to vex me.†
p. 510.9
Definition:
to annoy or disturb