vext

• “She knew he meant to insinuate that it would be conjectured she designed to meet Delvile, and though colouring, vext and provoked at the suggestion, the idea was sufficient to frighten her into his plan.”

  Cecilia

• “But we soon got over the uneasiness caused by such accidents, and usually in three or four days began to wonder how they vext us.”

  The Vicar of Wakefield

• “Our women knelt, our infants shrieked in vain, as the blood-stained murderer ranged from hut to hut, dragged the husband and father from their homes, to sell them into bondage! the vext spirits of my wife and child hover o'er me like”

  Grave Dirt, Dried Toads, and the Blood of a Black Cat: How Aldridge Worked His Charms

• “No more, no more! the vext spirits of my wife and child hover o'er me like a holy curse, and claim this due revenge.”

  Obi Melodrama Act II, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles

• “She bent over the prostrate form: "Marie said with her last breath," she muttered to herself, "that ere the oaks were green again the sweetest maidens in the island would be in her embrace, but she cannot summon this one now! her vext spirit has not yet the power!”

  The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century

• “This morning left the "still vext" bay of Oratava, and before sunset saw Palma and Gomera.”

  Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823

• “Stage, not only in those Plays mentioned before with _Thomas Midleton_, but also what he wrote alone; as, _A Woman never vext_ a Comedy; _A”

  The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)

• “I see plainly, what vext you was, because forsooth I reflected with some Spleen, on your little huckstering Society, with its two-penny”

  A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753

• “_Pleasure_ in seeing you prosper; I should now be sorely vext if you went away from what I believe you to be.”

  Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"

• “Which vext her so much the more, because the treat she received, was for the most part done, to bring her acquainted with this or that Gentlewomans Brother, or Cousin, or some other pretty”

  The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple

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