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    1. Mercer had not been seen since his latest interrogation of Delvin and Vex in the Flagon a couple of days earlier


    2. He filled a tankard for the redheaded man beside him; Vex, also sharing their table, only continued silently snacking on a small 59


    3. He climbed the stairs and entered the lieutenant's office, catching Griffiths just as he was snorting a short line of Vex


    4. "Back when I was still in Code Sanguinary, my wife, Telia, and I were having trouble having kids and… it took a toll on our relationship, so… I tried some Vex to take the edge off


    5. Thing is… you don’t just try Vex


    6. Even with the money I made with Code Sanguinary, I was having a hard time paying it off, but once Blackburn found out about my Vex addiction… he kicked me out


    7. The syringe that was on the table… the purple liquid… Vex


    8. He wondered which ones were prostitutes, in dire need of money for another line of that purple Vex, and which ones were simply home-wrecked girls, in dire need of love and warmth


    9. Vex in all its forms


    10. for they said, Note, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to our voice, how will he then vex himself,

    11. And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city, for God did vex them with all adversity


    12. 2 How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?


    13. 9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have


    14. 1 O death, how bitter is the remembrance of you to a man who lives at rest in his possessions, the man who has nothing to vex him,


    15. 22 And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, for his country a


    16. 21 you shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt


    17. 18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake


    18. 22 And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem Philip for his country a Phrygian and for manners more barbarous than he who set him there; 23 And at Garizim Andronicus; and besides Menelaus who worse than all the rest bore an heavy hand over the citizens having a malicious mind against his countrymen the Jews


    19. Marsellus: "Your mind's perplexed, I'll tell you why, I was sent to vex if you didn't comply


    20. It is his constant object to wound, hurt, vex, injure, or weaken, if he cannot kill and destroy

    21. With no way to vex my frustrations, I decided to leave the mortal realm totally and killed my wife and child


    22. “Plot” here refers to the desire to cause evil for others, doing what will vex them


    23. “Take heed, minion, while I cannot determine what power the brat holds, the threat to banish you to the Oblivion remains true if you vex me further!”


    24. The solar deity found it hard not to turn his nose up at Yama’s sweaty facial hair and the lumbering ox he rode in on, which defecated loudly then as if to thoroughly vex him


    25. By that time, I began suspecting the cause of this steadily worsening situation, and one day I asked him point blank, even though I knew it would vex him but I could hold it back no longer,


    26. But at midnight when no one speaks or gallops, and the thorn tree is perfectly still, it would be foolish to vex the moor with questions--what? and why?


    27. Lothario said, too, that every married man should have some friend who would point out to him any negligence he might be guilty of in his conduct, for it will sometimes happen that owing to the deep affection the husband bears his wife either he does not caution her, or, not to vex her, refrains from telling her to do or not to do certain things, doing or avoiding which may be a matter of honour or reproach to him; and errors of this kind he could easily correct if warned by a friend


    28. "The governor and the bystanders laughed, and at their laughter the chaplain was half ashamed, and he replied, 'For all that, Senor Neptune, it will not do to vex Senor Jupiter; remain where you are, and some other day, when there is a better opportunity and more time, we will come back for you


    29. The tradesman answered arrogantly that these articles had been ordered, and that he would not take them back; besides, it would vex madame in her convalescence; the doctor had better think it over; in short, he was resolved to sue him rather than give up his rights and take back his goods


    30. But one day, when she had been peculiarly wayward, rejecting her breakfast, complaining that the servants did not do what she told them; that the mistress would allow her to be nothing in the house, and Edgar neglected her; that she had caught a cold with the doors being left open, and we let the parlour fire go out on purpose to vex her, with a hundred yet more frivolous accusations, Mrs

    31. "Don't vex me


    32. If a servant chanced to vex her, it was always---"I shall tell papa!" And if he reproved her, even by a look, you would have thought it a heartbreaking business: I don't believe he ever did speak a harsh word to her


    33. Where I might go, what I might do, or when I might return, were questions utterly unknown to me; nor did I vex my mind with them, for it was wholly set on Provis's safety


    34. But a sad accident shortly after happened, which had the effect of making it as little pleasant to me to vex Mr Hickery with a joke about the Tappit-hen, as it was to him


    35. With this feeling uppermost, he continued to waive the question of the chaplaincy, and to persuade himself that it was not only no proper business of his, but likely enough never to vex him with a demand for his vote


    36. " He had been inwardly annoyed, however, when he had asked at the Infirmary about the woman he had recommended two days before, to hear from the house-surgeon, a youngster who was not sorry to vex Minchin with impunity, exactly what had occurred: he privately pronounced that it was indecent in a general practitioner to contradict a physician's diagnosis in that open manner, and afterwards agreed with Wrench that Lydgate was disagreeably inattentive to etiquette


    37. It was no longer amusing to vex Mr


    38. The smallest Trifle seem’d to vex her; and vexatious Persons oft’ can be Household Tyrants


    39. ‘Well, messieurs et mesdames,’ said Nicholas loudly and with apparent cheerfulness (it seemed to Countess Mary that he did it on purpose to vex her), ‘I have been on my feet since six this morning


    40. rejecting her breakfast, complaining that the servants did not do what she told them; that the mistress would allow her to be nothing in the house, and Edgar neglected her; that she had caught a cold with the doors being left open, and we let the parlour fire go out on purpose to vex her, with a hundred yet more frivolous accusations, Mrs

    41. ‘Hush!’ said Catherine, shutting the inner door! ‘Don’t vex me


    42. If a servant chanced to vex her, it was always—‘I shall tell papa!’ And if he reproved her, even by a look, you would have thought it a heart-breaking business: I don’t believe he ever did speak a harsh word to her


    43. “That is a fiction—an impudent invention to vex me


    44. I suppose you have had as little to vex you since you came into this house as any creature in the world


    45. Sir Thomas was as joyful as she could desire, and very kind and communicative; and she had so comfortable a talk with him about William as to make her feel as if nothing had occurred to vex her, till she found, towards the close, that Mr


    46. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums


    47. into heresy, taught by the devil, and has dared to vex


    48. Perhaps I had just a desire to vex her by something comparatively most innocent, by way of a gibe, " Since you are such an interfering young lady, wouldn't you hke to return the money yourself to the prince, a charming


    49. She did it, I know, from sheer mischief, to spite her mother, for she is a naughty, capricious girl, a real spoiled child spiteful and mischievous to a degree! And then Alexandra wanted to shave her head, not from caprice or mischief, but, like a little fool, simply because Aglaya persuaded her she would sleep better without her hair, and not suffer from headache! And how many suitors have they not had during the last five years! Excellent offers, too! What more do they want? Why don’t they get married? For no other reason than to vex their mother—none—none!”


    50. You see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian court, care for your victories? Bring us nice news of a victory by the Archduke Karl or Ferdinand (one archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only over a fire brigade of Bonaparte’s, that will be another story and we’ll fire off some cannon! But this sort of thing seems done on purpose to vex us



    1. Thom was clearly seriously vexed


    2. Greek that Peter uses to talk about how Lot was vexed (tormented) in his soul


    3. And as there was nothing more to tell, the Nord left the outpost and Dragon Bridge with heart and mind equally vexed


    4. see and hear and know such fearful things and barely anyone else around have any measure of knowledge of what vexed them


    5. Ever since the recent meeting between the Legion’s brass and the now constantly vexed commander of the Penitus Oculatus, there had been nothing but nervous and sometimes frenzied speculation


    6. head had vexed lines across it


    7. The woman wore a vexed expression as she tried to insist that it was a matter of great importance


    8. They may try this before they were turned to evil or madness, simply to make the point that they were vexed over being opposed by armies led by Ael Tarael


    9. She is vexed by a growing


    10. finally went, that this bad man, vexed at having a pupil so poorly

    11. His voice was vexed, weary and coarse:


    12. Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines, and wherever he turned himself, he vexed


    13. 2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do


    14. man of God said, let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her, and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told me


    15. 10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit; therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them


    16. delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them, and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard


    17. you, shall mock you, which are infamous and much vexed


    18. have they vexed the fatherless and the widow


    19. 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yes, they have


    20. 11 Whether they were absent or present, they were vexed alike

    21. 3 Add not more trouble to a heart that is vexed; and defer not to give to him who is in need


    22. 2 O death, acceptable is your sentence to the needy, and to him whose strength fails, that is now in the last age, and is vexed with all


    23. 36 And in the eighth night was my heart vexed


    24. heart was vexed within me, like as before: 28 And I opened my mouth, and began to talk before the Most High, and said, 29 O Lord,


    25. 5 For He pursued the wicked, and sought them out, and burnt up those who vexed his


    26. on the sea side, he vexed the city by land and by sea, neither suffered he any to go out or in


    27. Notably vexed and disappointed that he had so little practice compared to me, and still made turning look that faultless, I shifted uncomfortably on my bed, but Ishvara held me there without touching a single molecule of my body


    28. 26 And after this Cain repented having killed his brother, and he was sadly grieved, and he wept over him and it vexed him exceedingly


    29. 27 And when the king heard the words of Terah, and the parable which he brought concerning the king, it grieved him greatly and he was vexed at this thing, and his anger burned within him


    30. 4 And the third he called Eched, saying there was a great battle at that place; and the fourth he called Calnah, because his princes and mighty men were consumed there, and they vexed the Lord, they rebelled and transgressed against him

    31. 12 And when Esau saw that Jacob had fled and escaped from him, and that Jacob had cunningly obtained the blessing, then Esau grieved exceedingly, and he was also vexed at his father and mother; and he also rose up and took his wife and went away from his father and mother to the land of Seir, and he dwelt there; and Esau saw there a woman from among the daughters of Heth whose name was Bosmath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and he took her for a wife in addition to his first wife, and Esau called her name Adah, saying the blessing had in that time passed from him


    32. 14 And the wives of Esau vexed and provoked Isaac and Rebecca with their works, for they walked not in the ways of the Lord, but served their father's gods of wood and stone as their father had taught them, and they were more wicked than their father


    33. 27 And Angeas King of Africa heard the thing which Zepho had done, and it vexed him exceedingly, and Angeas was afraid of Zepho all the days


    34. 15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:


    35. 18 And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of those who oppressed them and vexed them


    36. 8 And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel, eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead


    37. 16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death;


    38. And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;(Jdg


    39. And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;


    40. 26 And after this Cain repented having killed his brother and he was sadly grieved and he wept over him and it vexed him exceedingly

    41. 27 And when the king heard the words of Terah and the parable which he brought concerning the king it grieved him greatly and he was vexed at this thing and his anger burned within him


    42. 4 And the third he called Eched saying there was a great battle at that place; and the fourth he called Calnah because his princes and mighty men were consumed there and they vexed the Lord they rebelled and transgressed against him


    43. ” Yazadril told him, vexed


    44. 12 And when Esau saw that Jacob had fled and escaped from him and that Jacob had cunningly obtained the blessing then Esau grieved exceedingly and he was also vexed at his father and mother; and he also rose up and took his wife and went away from his father and mother to the land of Seir and he dwelt there; and Esau saw there a woman from among the daughters of Heth whose name was Bosmath the daughter of Elon the Hittite and he took her for a wife in addition to his first wife and Esau called her name Adah saying the blessing had in that time passed from him


    45. 14 And the wives of Esau vexed and provoked Isaac and Rebecca with their works for they walked not in the ways of the Lord but served their father's gods of wood and stone as their father had taught them and they were more wicked than their father


    46. She was sorely vexed, for her lair is in the next peak to the south, and she had no wish to have neighbors so close


    47. 27 And Angeas King of Africa heard the thing which Zepho had done and it vexed him exceedingly and Angeas was afraid of Zepho all the days


    48. 36 And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again and I began to speak before the most High


    49. 27 After seven days I sat on the grass and my heart was vexed within me like as before: 28 And I opened my mouth and began to talk before the most High and said 29 O Lord you who shows yourself to us you were shown to our fathers in the wilderness in a place where no man treads in a barren place when they came out of Egypt


    50. 39 Then I let my thoughts go that I was in and turned myself to her 40 And said to her why weep you? Why are you so grieved in your mind? 41 And she said to me Sir let me alone that I may bewail myself and add to my sorrow for I am sore vexed in my mind and brought very low; 42 And I said to her what ails you? Tell me












































    1. 18 And he spoke to them a parable also that they should pray at all times and not be slothful; Therewas a judge in a city who feared not God nor was ashamed for men and there was a widow in that city; and she came to him and said Avenge me of my adversary; And he would not for a long time: but afterwards he said within himself If of God I have no fear and before men I have no shame; yet because this widow vexes me I will avenge her that she come not at all times 23 and annoy me; And our Lord said Hear you what the judge of injustice said; And shall not God still more do vengeance for his elect who call on him in the night and in the day and grant them respite? I say to you He will do vengeance for them speedily


    2. Lifting his head and raising his arms toward the silent form on the dais, Gorulga cried in the deep, rich resonance that was the natural attribute of the Keshani priest: "O great goddess, dweller with the great one of darkness, let thy heart be melted, thy lips opened for the ears of thy slave whose head is in the dust beneath thy feet! Speak, great goddess of the holy valley! Thou knowest the paths before us; the darkness that vexes us is as the light of the midday sun to thee


    3. "What is it that vexes you, my husband? You seem lost among your thoughts out here


    4. “Plot” means the will of causing evil to others and doing what vexes them


    5. Laurie, who is in one of his tantrums about something, which vexes the old gentleman, so I dursn't go nigh him


    6. To win the good-will of the people thou governest there are two things, among others, that thou must do; one is to be civil to all (this, however, I told thee before), and the other to take care that food be abundant, for there is nothing that vexes the heart of the poor more than hunger and high prices


    7. "It is not so much the loss of the money that vexes me," said Villefort, "though, after all, 900,000 francs are worth regretting; but I am the more annoyed with this fate, chance, or whatever you please to call the power which has destroyed my hopes and my fortune, and may blast the prospects of my child also, as it is all occasioned by an old man relapsed into second childhood


    8. "Come, Hermine," he said, after a short time, "answer candidly,—something vexes you—is it not so?"


    1. “No, of course that was a vexing development


    2. remained silent for a few seconds, fumbling to disengage from his own vexing contemplations


    3. Blazin’s dad looked into the rear view mirror with this vexing look that said: don’t they teach these kids anything better to talk about in school? And to confirm that I had read his look accurately, when we had all finally shut up, he said, “You kids and your corny ass jokes


    4. theocracy – the vexing problem of trying to


    5. gambling, the vexing problem of maintaining faith in


    6. problem of gambling, the vexing problem of


    7. And all the while Clarice pretended not to know what was vexing her cousin Octavia


    8. I knew this topic was only peripheral to what was really vexing her, and again I waited as Thean’s mind sorted out what was bothering her


    9. Rather than stocked full of the answers we sought to the problems vexing us, it was instead crammed full of items of ‘touristic interest’*


    10. As a way of explaining my men’s over exuberance, the case we have been investigating for some months has proved to have been both horrific and vexing

    11. Can’t the origin of the so-called false revelation said to be in praise of Al Lat, Al Uzza and Manat be seen in this background? Maybe, it’s an idea for the Musalmans to see whether or not these vexing as well as perplexing ‘Satanic Verses’, whose authorship Muhammad had denied, are indeed Quranic interpolations


    12. The most vexing question must remain however, what power do consumers have


    13. ” Allowing what is done to them to be done to them, and then let the doing be painted in pastel pink rather than the bloody deep, crimson red it is to them, has to be as vexing as it gets


    14. At the sight of the bird, the princess hastened her steps, and without vexing


    15. OF COURSE, WHAT'S SO BLOODY VEXING ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS IS THAT I WAS EXPECTING TO MEET THEE IN PSEUDOPOLIS


    16. That was vexing, but it did not worry him unduly


    17. She knew that the old lady was expected from day to day, that she would be pleased at her son’s choice, and she felt it strange that he should not make his offer through fear of vexing his mother


    18. ‘They have got into talk without me,’ thought Kitty, ‘but still it’s vexing that Kostya’s out


    19. "How vexing!" said Tess


    20. 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

    21. Will easily felt happy when nothing crossed his humor, and by this time the thought of vexing Mr


    22. 7 On exceedingly rare occasions a defaulted issue may be paid off in full, but only after a long and vexing delay


    23. Reform in the status of indenture trustees may lead to a solution of the vexing problem of the protective committee


    24. It little mattered whether my curiosity irritated him; I knew the pleasure of vexing and soothing him by turns; it was one I chiefly delighted in, and a sure instinct always prevented me from going too far; beyond the verge of provocation I never ventured; on the extreme brink I liked well to try my skill


    25. At that moment a little accident supervened, which seemed decreed by fate purposely to prove the truth of the adage, that “misfortunes never come singly,” and to add to their distresses the vexing one of the slip between the cup and the lip


    26. How are positions sized? How many positions are held? How actively are holdings traded? How are portfolio risks assessed and what efforts are made to mitigate them? Is hedging a part of the strategy? Is shareholder activism? Finally, among the most vexing topics an investor must address: How do I decide when to sell?


    27. She knew that the old lady was expected from day to day, that she would be pleased at her son's choice, and she felt it strange that he should not make his offer through fear of vexing his mother


    28. How vexing it is that I have no photograph of him


    29. "How vexing! But, never mind


    30. We will spend the evening there—oh, it's jolly! Oh, the devil! How, vexing it is I can't help you

    31. It is terribly vexing, this interference with our communications which now have become so specially important


    32. Whitby, with other British armed vessels, hovering about New York, vexing the trade of that port, arresting a coasting vessel of the United States by firing a cannon, which entered the vessel and killed John Pierce


    33. Those who passed it could have but one of two objects in view; either to coerce Great Britain to the terms we demanded—or, by vexing and irritating her, to raise up in due time an unnecessary fictitious quarrel, which (as this country is known to be extremely sensitive of British aggression) might ultimately end in a real old-fashioned war


    34. Not content with vexing and harassing you whenever you went from home, they came here to put strife into your family


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