14 Verbs to Use for the Word vex

But the same meaning may be conveyed when the to is used; as, "The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.

"This is the soundest safety for a king, To cut them off, that vex or hinder him.

Curse o' my life: why dost thou vex me thus?

But this alone is it that doth me vex: He leaves me that loves him, and her pursues, That loathes him and loves me.

She had not chosenas even the most sensible of us will instinctively decline to doto vex the quiet of a house wherein death was by ringing a bell.

Henceforth no sorrows could hurt us, no misfortunes vex; for we should walk hand in hand on our earthly pilgrimage and find the way all too short.

Let Bolshevicks Sweep from the Volga to the Styx; Let internecine carnage vex The gathering hosts of Poles and Czechs, And Jugo-Slavs and Tyrolese Impair the swart Italian's ease Me for Boar's Hill!

But I wonder if God, so far above on His great white throne The clanging tumult of trouble and doubt that mortals vex; When the murmur of a crime sweeps up from earth with woeful moan, If He pauses, ere He condemns, to ask the offender's sex.

"Set up thy standard, Lord, that we Who claim a heavenly birth May march with thee to smite the lies That vex thy groaning earth.

She tells me that she assiduously cultivates her natural vivacity; that she finds her taste for company and amusements increasing; that she dreads being alone, because past scenes arise to view which vex and discompose her.

I don't want toto vex him more than I need.

A prince, with eunuchs and the softer sex Shut up so long, would warlike nations vex, Provoke the German, and, neglecting heaven, Forget the truce for which his oath was given.

Great wits go mad, and small ones only dull; Distracting cares vex not the empty skull: They seize on heads that think, and hearts that feel, As flies attack thebetter sort of veal.

Darkness is in my bosom, and there lie A thousand thoughts that cannot brook the light: How wilt thou vex 'em when this deed is done, Conscience, that art afraid to let me name it? Mar. How do you Sir? Arb. Why very well Mardonius, how dost thou do? Mar. Better than you I fear.

14 Verbs to Use for the Word  vex