It is very likely they were as surprised at him as he was childishly vexed with them. |
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Excusing herself for a few moments, she goes away, rather vexed that Violet should be so inappreciative. |
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Even her fidelity vexed the unfaithful husband, who seemed to bid her do wrong by stigmatizing her virtue as insensibility. |
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I am merely vexed that you should play-act to me, and to Bezobiedoff, and to yourself. |
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This departure of the earle sore vexed the king, doubting, of some new trouble to insue thereof. |
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Cora was led away, and Dora slipped into the next room, that her mother might not be vexed at her partnerless state. |
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He entered in the clatter of the shop bell with an air of sombre and vexed exhaustion. |
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He was looking at her attentively, vexed at the change in her manner since John Storm entered. |
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I replied, for the woman's yatter, yatter easily vexed me, being still weak. |
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In the end I was vexed, and resolved to be even with her by not visiting the wood for some time. |
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And she even felt vexed that it should be supposed she wanted emile's company. |
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She was not a baby-farm after all, and the audition of these squalling nurslings vexed her. |
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Mr. tester looked at me a moment, as if he were too vexed to trust himself to speak. |
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They added that most of the company being of loe's opinion, Russel was vexed and determined if possible to break the articles. |
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He repeated the passage, halting at the speech of the convener of the trades, but was evidently vexed at the temporary breakdown. |
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I cried, as vexed as an author for whom some one has spoiled the effect of a coup de theatre. |
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I could not maintain the same calm in throwing off my hat and coat, and was vexed with myself for it. |
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I twigged his face when Buller stood up, and he looked as vexed as possible. |
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And I observed that Davidson must have been vexed by this display of wifely anxiety. |
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How this uncanonical behaviour must have vexed the shades of Fulk the pious! |
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I was rather vexed at this uncontrollable outburst, and I continued my explanation. |
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This day a falling out between my wife and deb., about a hood lost, which vexed me. |
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The plural vexed Temple, and he told himself how unreasonable the vexation was. |
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He told Theo all, and was vexed by her unresponsiveness to his new-born enthusiasm. |
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But when Loki beheld the scene he was sorely vexed that Balder was not hurt. |
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After three centuries of exploration, the navigability of Hudson Bay and Strait remains a vexed question. |
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I was vexed and puzzled, and distressed, too, after sending John away as I had done. |
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On Sunday I went to the cathedral service, and it vexed me to hear them singing their prayers and amens. |
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I am really vexed that that old and odious Duchesse de Zell should still be living, whereas our dear electress is dead already. |
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Too frequently the angler is vexed by finding a boat busy in his favourite bay. |
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But Belisarius, as he besieged the Neapolitans both by land and by sea, was beginning to be vexed. |
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It galled him to take the woman's wages, but it vexed him yet more to do her work. |
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He was the cacique of the Sun and he was vexed because he had not been called earlier. |
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It came from Master gervais, who was vexed at not having been served first. |
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He was vexed with himself for attaching so much importance to what Haldin said. |
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I was so vexed, so distressed, because it was almost sunset and the boar seemed to be going strongly and faster than a grayhound. |
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The haruspex submitted, though deeply vexed, and asked whether the guilty boys were also to go unpunished. |
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I am charitable enough to hope that this gratified her more than it vexed me, which was not at all. |
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The only thing that vexed them was to meet their fathers, especially when the hatter had been drinking. |
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Then disappointed and vexed, Jack turned to chicory as if it was his fault. |
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I had then neither time nor will to do as he did, and his ill-timed mirth vexed me. |
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Seems to me she's failing right along, and that's what makes her so fretful and easy vexed. |
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This is, in brief, the theological side of the vexed question of Zionism. |
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She was very much vexed, and meant to make her apology as soon as possible. |
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When I have been vexed I run out to them for comfort, and when I have been angry without just cause, it is there that I find absolution. |
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She was vexed and disappointed, but she was bent on abstaining from useless words. |
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Adversity vexed and irritated, instead of calming and subduing her. |
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Leaving this Parthian shaft to rankle in Anne's stormy bosom, Marilla descended to the kitchen, grievously troubled in mind and vexed in soul. |
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Sharp's Spinoza is as vexed by the 'subnaturalism' of the latter view as the supernaturalism of the former. |
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For he was vexed at the scratches he had got in the struggle. |
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But he fished out a dole, though he was vexed at the injury to the supper. |
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This brings us finally to the vexed problem of Customs and excise. |
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The other factor depended on the vexed question of means of communication. |
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This gaucherie on his part Bazarov realised, and felt vexed at. |
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Worst of all, when the actual duties are comprised in such petty details as now vexed the brooding soul of the old gentlewoman. |
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He was perhaps vexed with himself for his impetuosity and hastiness. |
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All this small-talk almost vexed me more than the content it gave. |
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Cesare sat impotent in Rome, no doubt vexed by his own inaction. |
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But somehow, mamma, I have vexed jass about it several times. |
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Aunt Polly was vexed to think she had overlooked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick. |
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He stood by, patting and stroking me while I was eating, and seeing the clots of blood on my side he seemed very vexed. |
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These were the questions that vexed Nutty's mind when he was able to think at all coherently. |
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This vexed her so mach that she wept day and night about it. |
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At first this vexed me, but later I was very glad of it, as it gave me an undoubted advantage over the Martians. |
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They stared so directly, so unblinkingly at Brian, that Dierdre was vexed. |
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She underscored the expression of her regret if she had vexed him. |
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Francis had not ridden far before he was vexed with himself. |
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The two went away together, still laughing, and Enoch crept off to his room trembling and vexed. |
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Well, he saw he had excited her more and done more harm than all the rest put together, so he was vexed at himself and wished he had kept still. |
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Nearly a week had drifted by, and still the thing remained a vexed mystery. |
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Nathanael was, indeed, too happy to be seriously vexed at anything. |
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Verily, master, I am vexed for the Nazarite maiden, for her tale is sad. |
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He was not vexed that he had made her cry, but vexed that she cried. |
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He was vexed with the young volunteer and vexed with himself. |
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It was not of much consequence, but Pennie felt vexed with her. |
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They were vexed by the brazen law of the Ecclesiast that men die like the beasts of the field and their end is the same. |
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He was so vexed he could do nothing but prance up and down the hall. |
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The plump boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been disturbed. |
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I was naturally touchy, or it would not have vexed me so much. |
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Then the peasants were vexed that the small peasant should have thus outwitted them, wanted to take vengeance on him, and accused him of this treachery before the major. |
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And often she found herself dreaming of the arcadian days of her people, when they had not lived in cities nor been vexed with labor unions and employers' associations. |
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But Cliff, he was ashamed o' being called a tailor, and he was sore vexed as his riding was laughed at, and nobody o' the gentlefolks hereabout could abide him. |
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The man at the wheel never vexed the old lady with any superfluous steering, but comfortably adjusting his limbs at the tiller, would doze away by the hour. |
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Similar questions had vexed him from infancy, and at Oxford he had learned to say that the importance of human beings has been vastly overrated by specialists. |
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In the hall below Ursula saw her step-mother, looking troubled and vexed. |
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Talking wearied her, faces troubled her, pain claimed her for its own, and her tranquil spirit was sorrowfully perturbed by the ills that vexed her feeble flesh. |
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