The question was especially vexing with Anna, for, while she needed to work things out, fend for herself, her sensory difficulties were becoming more severe all the time, and they sometimes threatened, as Josef observed, to throw her into an abyss of bewilderment, a disintegrating terror.
Root was clearly vexed with himself for being out again failing to convert into a hundred, James Taylor was stumped on the charge.
"A grand crowd... good people," he said, and I realized that he was vexed with me for not having been there.
In 2009 the Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud had become so vexed with his resistance that he invited him to a remote hillside, late one night.
II No wailing Ghost shall dare appear To vex with Shrieks this quiet Grove: But Shepherd Lads assemble here, And melting Virgins own their Love.
Yet with people lining the streets to celebrate, one man was hurting, vexed with rage and drowning in disappointment while he watched from the sidelines.
"Hans My Hedgehog" features a hero — half-boy, half-hedgehog — who is so vexed with a young woman who refuses to marry him that he takes off her beautiful clothes and pricks her with his quills until she bleeds.
While Lillian's mother is delineated with a mixture of anger and affection, her father is decidedly more crudely drawn -- a dimly glimpsed blowhard of a man, obsessed with hunting and drinking, and terminally vexed with his wife and children.
So for old time sake Moses find himself on the bus going to Waterloo, vex with himself that him heart so soft that he always doing something for somebody and nobody ever doing anything for him.
"I'm annoyed, I'm distraught, I'm vexed with how the police handled the situation," said Mr Patterson, a security guard, outside the home of Ms. Moore's aunt, Marjorie Mann.
They can entertain with eccentricity or anecdotes, vex with their stubbornness, seduce with hospitality and amaze with feats of strength.
