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I shall be greatly vex'd if they do not execute them as they deserve, or give us any of the Bookseller's quirks.
Letter 259 2009
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I like Isaac's Tunes much and am more vex'd than ever that we cannot contrive that his mind should earn more than his hands.
Letter 120 2009
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When I reflect on the times which have past since I wrote last I feel vex'd, and lower'd in my own estimation, and therefore I will proceed without reflection, at least without that of the retrospective kind, which I can least bear.
Letter 234 2009
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I was vex'd for a while, but I calld reason to my aid, and soon found some probable circumstances which might have prevented the posting a letter on Sunday night.
Letter 266 2009
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Laburnum and Lilack suspended on scaffold poles from house to house, but every boddy were dissappointed and vex'd, as the Emperor had slid through the town in private at seven in the morning.
Letter 290 2009
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Sir, I am vex'd; Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled:?
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He told me too of another Event that vex'd, provoked and allarm'd me much more -- vizt.,
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I have thought a good deal, and feel really vex'd; [p 22]
The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of "The Peacock At Home" Unknown
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Their _Souls_ one wou'd think shou'd be _vex'd_ at such daring _Impieties_, and their _Spirits stirr'd_ in them to see such Vices Adored; to find _Lewdness_ vaunting it over Religion and Virtue, and usurping their place in a bold recommending itself to the affections of Men, with all those
A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous
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Sparkles the briny main, and the vex'd ocean fries.
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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