Even Jeffreys' dull wits are alive to the conviction that his is not merely a losing game, but a lost one; and the reflectionexasperates him.
But the remark does not pass unheeded, and a laugh, varying in tone from open guffaw to suppressed titter, further exasperates and discomfits the luckless stumbler, who vows vengeance on his tormentor.
He is a good fellow at heart, and the reader is thoroughly interested in his mental development, but his egoism is so strong that it continually exasperates and annoys.
The illogical, hypocritical, plutocratic republic which they find themselves under disgusts and exasperates them quite as much as would a monarchy.
The question is not yet concluded, and it will be necessary a second time to display my eloquence, which exasperates me excessively.
What exasperates me more than anything else is that you have received my proposition to visit you at ---- with the most disdainful silence; but I shall give it no further thought.
But what exasperates and disgusts me particularly is the liberty they take of talking in public, without any kind of precaution, about the most revolting adventures.
Forms excite their contempt and often their hatred; as they commonly aspire to none but easy and present gratifications, they rush onwards to the object of their desires, and the slightest delay exasperates them.
Although war gratifies the army, it embarrasses and often exasperates that countless multitude of men whose minor passions every day require peace in order to be satisfied.
The sharp pang naturally exasperates the deity and he seeks to wreak his wrath on the thief, who is the real occasion of his suffering.
The least conversation with anyone at all exasperates me because I find everyone idiotic.
The idea of making peace now exasperates me, and I would rather that Paris were burned (like Moscow), than see the Prussians enter it.
But it is also because it haunts and exasperates me, because I have long since condemned it.
The thought of it all so exasperates me that at times I am as unreasonable as yourself.
He is Pope and Emperor in one, and naturally itexasperates him when people don't agree with him.
Such treachery exasperates the Christians, who, exclaiming the truce has been broken, precipitate themselves upon their foes, and in the general battle which ensues many deeds of valor are performed.
Remissness leaves a wound half cured: and a suitable penance often exasperates and makes it wider.
He strongly recommends to Catholics a modest and mild behavior towards heretics; for nothing so powerfully gains others as meekness and tender charity; this heals all wounds, whereas harshness exasperates and alienates the mind.
Nevertheless, That the woman should not know her own heart (as so often happens) terrifies the woman as much as it exasperates the man.
And Jill's very power of making-believe to be "fancy free" exasperates Jack.
And the woman's hesitation at the brink of the stream exasperates the spluttering man.
The way in which it has exercised this power especially exasperates him.
If he purposely exasperates Vaillant, he must take the consequences; he knows that the animal will not endure harsh treatment.
Thus envy is a passion altogether different from hatred, seeing that what abates the one pains and exasperates the other.
To stand upon one's guard against Death exasperates her malice and protracts our sufferings.
Nothing exasperates more than a considerate, quiet hatred; a passionate hatred does so far less.
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