"Still he needs keeping in order, and correcting, and repressing, and I do him that good service; but the boy is so elastic there is no such thing as vexing him thoroughly.
"The examination shall take place, and I will choose a good moment; and instead of vexing and hindering, as I felt half-inclined ten minutes ago—for I have my malevolent moods: I always had from childhood—I will aid you sincerely.
It's too vexing.
"Captain Jim is a good man, but he's kind of vexing in one way.
To attack this mass of granite, even by a mine, was Herculean work, and it was really vexing that nature could not help them at their need.
Will easily felt happy when nothing crossed his humor, and by this time the thought of vexing Mr.
Here is the land they've been all along expecting for Fred, which it seems the old man never meant to leave him a foot of, but left it to this side-slip of a son that he kept in the dark, and thought of his sticking there and vexing everybody as well as he could have vexed 'em himself if he could have kept alive.
For centuries it has been one of the most vexing mysteries for mankind: are we, the seven billion inhabitants of this wondrous [en]blue planet really alone, or is there life somewhere out there in the universe?
You take delight in vexing me.
" Perhaps the most vexing issue for local organizers — the one that may stir anxiety among athletes and spectators — is the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects and temporary paralysis.
One vexing query the pair have been exploring rocketed in from Elisabeth Hill, via BBC Future's Facebook page, who asked:"Could we shoot garbage into the Sun?
"I just had no idea if I was ever going to be allowed back in this country," one long-term American resident, who has owned a business here for two decades, recalled after a vexing recent visa run to the US.
" At the sight of the bird, the princess hastened her steps, and without vexing herself at the noise which by this time had grown deafening, she walked straight up to the cage, and seizing it, she said: "Now, my bird, I have got you, and I shall take good care that you do not escape.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778) Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
