Douglas Starr3 had once, in a fit of exasperation, told Emily that "Ellen Greene was a fat, lazy old thing of no importance," and Emily, whenever she looked at Ellen after that, thought the description fitted her to a hair.
" Thrilling with exasperation, to which it would have been sheer folly to have given vent—for there was no contending with that unsubstantial feather, that mealy-winged moth—I extinguished my taper, locked my bureau, and left her, since she would not leave me.
" said Tom, in a tone of exasperation, as Maggie peeped.
At last he turned, still resting against the chair, and stretching his hand automatically towards his hat, said with a sort of exasperation, "Good-by.
Her melancholy had become so marked that Lydgate felt a strange timidity before it, as a perpetual silent reproach, and the strong man, mastered by his keen sensibilities towards this fair fragile creature whose life he seemed somehow to have bruised, shrank from her look, and sometimes started at her approach, fear of her and fear for her rushing in only the more forcibly after it had been momentarily expelled by exasperation.
Lydgate was as polite as he could be in his offhand way, but politeness in a man who has placed you at a disadvantage is only an additional exasperation, especially if he happens to have been an object of dislike beforehand.
I fancied there was in his tone a slight note of exasperation.
" "Because," the little girl said with great exasperation, "I'm the goalie!
He signed in exasperation and nodded.
He claimed, for instance, and without evidence, ,,, that the Natural History Museum's treasured fossil of an Archaeopteryx was a forgery along the lines of the Piltdown hoax, ,, causing much exasperation to the museum's paleontologists, .
Finally one day my daughter told me in exasperation, "Dad please just read a book one page at a time like everyone else!
One manager of a retail company told me of his exasperation in trying to limit the damage caused by a talented employee.
Finally,in exasperation the controller raised his voice.
That looks like an expression of anger and exasperation that morphs into abuse.
