例文・使い方で印象づける「vex」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... “Very good! and why should that vex you? A precious pleasure, ma foi! For my part, I don’t regret it at all... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...Not for us to vex our memories and stultify our wit with the stilted phrases that are the fruit of a wretched author’s lucubrations...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...I used to vex mysel’ aboutit, but now I thank the Lord that in His mercy He spared me sorrow...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...This moved the envy of one of the Makololo who hated Mpololo, and, wishing to vex him, he entered the daughter's hut by night, and strangled both her and her child...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
..."This Colonel Clay is enough to vex the patience ofJob—and Job had large losses, too, if I recollect aright, from theChaldeans and other big operators of the period...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...I met with many enemies, and much persecution, among the sailors; one ofthem was particularly unkind to me, and studied ways to vex and teazeme...
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw 「A Narrative Of The Most Remarkable Particulars In The Life Of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, As Related By Himself」
... ’Twould be a sad pity to vex so fine a gentleman!”...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905」
...Moreover, insects are of great use as scavengers; such are the young ormaggots of the house fly, the mosquitoes, and numerous other forms, thatseem created only to vex us when in the winged state...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...Not thathe'll be good to take the conceit out of, but you may vex him a bit; andalso learn something of the movements of his friend Sponge...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...Her ladyship hadn't much liking for youths of his age, and would just assoon vex them as not...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...Hendrik was about to observe that there was a vast difference between the Kaffir and his master, but, not wishing to vex the latter any more, he proposed that something should be done besides talking...
Mayne Reid 「The Giraffe Hunters」
...Calamitiesfall upon us, sicknesses vex and harass us, and make life, shortthough it be, to appear long...
Marcius Willson 「Mosaics of Grecian History」
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Thou shalt hear the “Never, never,” whisper’d by the phantom years,And a song from out the distance in the ringing of thine ears;
And an eye shall vex thee, looking ancient kindness on thy pain...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
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“Go, vexed Spirit, sleep in trust;The right ear, that is fill’d with dust,Hears little of the false or just...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
...Come not, when I am dead,To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave,To trample round my fallen head,And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
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