I will take the mountain path, Beard the storm within its den, Know the worst of this dim wrath, Vexing thus the souls of men.
The troublesome Transalpine wits might then employ themselves in confuting the Turks, rather than in vexing the Catholics; so closely did sagacity and extravagance associate in the mind of this wild genius.
Associate with children and learn how to forget the vexing trifles of everyday life.
There is no doubt that the mind has very much to do with this vexing complication of pregnancy.
Oh," thought the little girl, "how I do wish I could do anything to keep Rosy from vexing her mother.
Christ's blessing at your heart is warm, Ye fear no vexing mood.
E'en round the death-bed of the good Such dear remembrances will hover, And haunt us with no vexing mood When all the cares of earth are over.
He was, as we have seen, a cordial admirer of other writers, seldom vexing himself with a critical review of their merits and defects, but applying to them instead the test of his own catholic capacity for enjoyment.
Without waiting to hear their specific charges, he replied that the inquisitor had already accused them of impeding him in his office and with vexing him with proceedings and suits at law.
Her rebellious hair is all over her eyes, much vexing the pale, energetic mother who sits on the opposite side of the fire, cumbered with much service, letting no instant of time escape the inevitable click of the knitting-needles.
Wherefore I will and firmly command you and the men of Sandwich that ye cause the aforesaid monks to have all their customs both in the port and in the town of Sandwich, and I forbid any from vexing them on this account.
And I prohibit all persons from vexingor disturbing them therein upon forfeiture to me.
Carpenters next, appeared, making a tremendous racket among the outbuildings, strewing the green grass with pine shavings and chips of chestnut joists, and vexing the whole antiquity of the place with their discordant renovations.
It never has a vivacious aspect, except when a northwestern breeze is vexing its surface on a sunshiny day.
Caesar thereupon conveyed to him by messenger his express injunctions, "not to summon any more from the borders of the Rhine fresh multitudes of men, and to cease from vexing the AEduans and making war on them, them and their allies.
Even in southern and western Gaul the populations of Agnitania were rising, vexing the Roman province, and rendering necessary, on both sides of the Pyrenees, the intervention of Roman legions.
As one has well said: "Refreshing sleep andvexing thoughts are deadly foes.
Imagine a general trying to solve thevexing problems of a great combat which is going against him, with his mind beset by numberless worries.
Talking of melancholy, he said, 'Some men, and very thinking men too, have not those vexing thoughts.
O, very well; you'd take one whom you think a bad man, to have the pleasure of vexing your parents.
He would do no man an essential injury; he may, indeed, love to make sport of people by vexing their vanity.
The Bishop of Dromore observes in a letter to me, 'The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned.
To be possessed of such a weapon--such a means of rescuing the Countess from her fearful situation--and yet lack freedom wherein to use it, was too vexing for endurance.
In this way the distress and poverty, which isvexing our country, may be soon driven out.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste, That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
She sat with him in his work no less frequently and regularly than before; but her childish spirits no longer broke forth in idle talk or petulant movements, vexing the good man from his absorption and his toils.
In a way, without vexing himself with the problem, he accepted their over-lordship of the world as dual.
Don't you believe I enjoy it more than those damp people that are always vexing it with rod and line?
Go and be happy with him; I am not worth caring for, or vexing yourself about!
He wants to get rid of Armstrong and all the finery of the garden; but he is afraid of vexing mamma, and in the meantime he is very glad that we are living more cheaply in the cottage.
I could but have done it without vexing her, and to-day, too, when she has to bear with Albert.
A pretty specimen of your usefulness, vexing her with your black looks, till she was talking herself into a fever!
After so much dislike to that little insignificant light man for being the means of vexing Percy, to find him the poet hero, the feudal vision of nobility, the Lord of Wrangerton!
After all, Nancy, where is the use of vexing people for nothing?
I could not bear her praises without teasing and vexing myself.
