Exasperated

Examples

• Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• England's course towards the United States during the rebellion exasperated the people of this country very much against the mother country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Then he directed a look, half exasperated and half jeering, at his wife. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It had been exasperated by the expulsion of its representative from England upon the execution of Louis, and it declared war against England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To Selden's exasperated observation she was only too completely alive to them. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Herncastle's fiery temper had been, as I could plainly see, exasperated to a kind of frenzy by the terrible slaughter through which we had passed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I was so exasperated that I could have boxed her ears. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Well, then, if they must have a victim, you have my leave to throw Madame Olenska to them, cried her son, exasperated. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Mrs Brangwen turned round with a slightly puzzled, exasperated look. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She said it exasperated her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Both Birkin and Gerald disliked him, Gerald ignoring him with some contempt, Birkin exasperated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Meanwhile, councils went on in the kitchen at home, fraught with almost insupportable aggravation to my exasperated spirit. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• To shut the door in the face of such a current of feeling because it is occasionally exasperated into violence would be as futile as locking up children because they get into mischief. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He was so very fretful and exasperated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At that point, my convict became so frantically exasperated, that he would have rushed upon him but for the interposition of the soldiers. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I was a young boy, and she exasperated me, and I threw a hammer at her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• No,' said Mr Wegg, greatly exasperated, 'and I'll go further. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Gudrun too was silent in exasperated contempt. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The father was becoming exasperated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Up she rose--nobody could control her now, for she was exasperated--straight she walked to her garden gates, wide she flung them open. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Wildeve was reckless, frantic, exasperated. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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