They all cling to their vices, but they are very keen to change some little cross or condition that vexes them--or think vexes them.
Nothing vexes me, but that I must stand bare to him, after such an enterprise as this is.
I hope we are," said Ethel; "but how can we tell whatvexes her?
And then it is its own tormentor, a sin that needs no punishment but itself the insurrection and mutiny of the heart against God’s will, sets all the powers of the soul out of course, vexes pains, and disquiets all.
The only thing that vexes me is that you can't go and see her yourself with any decency.
I do believe you're puzzling over the same thing that vexes everybody so to-day.
And this thing that they have done vexes my heart exceedingly: they have eaten holes in my sacred robe, which I wove painfully spinning a fine woof on a fine warp, and made it full of holes.
Mark, when you hear the voice of the crane [1317] who cries year by year from the clouds above, for she give the signal for ploughing and shows the season of rainy winter; but she vexes the heart of the man who has no oxen.
I am so sorry that it should be so, papa, because it vexes you.
I have heard you speak with bitter regret of this affair of Lady Mary's, because it vexes him.
That is what vexes me, and what I cannot understand.
O war chief, if anything vexes me, I think I will do that," said Black Bear.
O war chief, I think I will do that, if anythingvexes me," said Wolf.
I cannot support the praises she bestows upon that literary hero of hers, Mr. Trissotin, who vexes and wearies me to death.
It would be wrong to impute to me the least thought of speaking like an interested person in this matter, and false to think that the base trick he is playing me secretly vexes me.
People take me to be younger, because I am short, and it vexes me.
Here the body sometimes sins against the soul, and the soul again vexes and perplexes the body with dreadful apprehensions of the wrath and judgment of God.
It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters, instead of following up the work which your Lordship entrusted to me.
So to the office all the morning, where very much business, but it vexes me to see so much disorder at our table, that, every man minding a several business, we dispatch nothing.
He sees how the situation would awaken the wonder of the great lords who abjectly obey his lightest word, but he concludes that, after all, the small becomes great if it vexes you.
But the small turns the great If it vexes you--that is the thing!
You're in my room; that vexes you, perhaps, but, dame!
And as they confess, in the somnambulistic state, that they deceive him, that vexes him, and he goes off and puts others to sleep.
But you know, of course, that I go nowhere; which vexes me, for I must own that the theatre is the greatest amusement I have in the world, and the only pleasure that remains to me.
I am delighted that Heidelberg is being rebuilt, and that they are working on the chateau; but what vexes me is that they are putting up a Jesuit convent instead of the commissariat.
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