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«O Bruscus, cease our aching ears to vex - with thy loud railing, at the softer sex; No accusation worse than this could be - That once a woman did give birth to thee»
«Oh! rather give me commentators plain, / Who with no deep researches vex the brain; / Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, / And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.»
Author: George Crabbe
(Writer)
| Keywords:
commentator, doubtful, glimmer, glimmering, glimmerings, Glimmers, researches, tapers, vex
«The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and to swear to lie»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
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Crime
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associate, Commit Suicide, crimes, Great Mother, murder, species, suicide, swear, vex, vexes, vexing
«Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: / Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! / Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? / Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.»
«The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.»
«Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.»
«OPPOSE, v. To assist with obstructions and objections.How lonely he who thinks to vex With bandinage the Solemn Sex! Of levity, Mere Man, beware; None but the Grave deserve the Unfair. --Percy P. Orminder»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assist, obstruction, obstructions, Percy, vex
«Vex not thou the poet's mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet's mind; For thou canst not fathom it»
«Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.»
«Then Job answered and said, / How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? / These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.»
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