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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
vex
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Examples
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O Merchant Hasan, this Wazir of mine vexeth and thwarteth me concerning the money I give to poets and boon-companions and story-tellers and glee-men, and I would have thee tell me a goodly history and a rare story, such as I have never before heard.
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Injusta noverca: a stepmother often vexeth a whole family, is matter of repentance, exercise of patience, fuel of dissension, which made
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Besides, the devil many times takes his opportunity of such storms, and when the humours by the air be stirred, he goes in with them, exagitates our spirits, and vexeth our souls; as the sea waves, so are the spirits and humours in our bodies tossed with tempestuous winds and storms.
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The only thing that vexeth me is, that I cannot speak the Lanternatory language.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For there it is not where I itch, it is not there where it fretteth, hurts, or vexeth me; for, henceforth being quit and out of debt, what countenance will I be able to keep?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It vexeth me grievously, I assure you; nor am I able to conceal my indignation.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It vexeth me grievously, I assure you; nor am I able to conceal my indignation.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The only thing that vexeth me is, that I cannot speak the Lanternatory language.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For there it is not where I itch, it is not there where it fretteth, hurts, or vexeth me; for, henceforth being quit and out of debt, what countenance will I be able to keep?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And I crave of Allah the Most High power for one day, that I may beat each and every of them with four hundred lashes, as well as the imam of the mosque, and parade them round about the city of Baghdad and bid cry before them: 'This is the reward and the least of the reward of whoso exceedeth in talk and vexeth the folk and turneth their joy to annoy.'
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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