"Exasperated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... through the tent walls snatches of those songs and yarns and idyls, at times he caught momentary glimpses of the bright young girl who was pouring the vigour of her life into the lad fighting for his own, but these snatches and glimpses only exasperated him. There was no opportunity for any lengthened and undisturbed converse, for on the one hand the hospital service was exacting beyond the strength of doctor and nurses, and on the other there was serious ...
— Corporal Cameron • Ralph Connor
... purpose and his motives intelligible to the representatives of the Prussian people. He was taken for a mere bully and absolutist of the old type. His personal characteristics, his arrogance, his sarcasm, his habit of banter, exasperated and inflamed. Roon was no better suited to the atmosphere of a popular assembly. Each encounter of the Ministers with the Chamber embittered the struggle and made reconciliation more difficult. The ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
... to get back to the farm, where he was in his own again. "I have got a turnip on my shoulders, let me stick to th' fallow," he said to his exasperated mother. He had too low an opinion of himself. But he went about at his work on the farm gladly enough, glad of the active labour and the smell of the land again, having youth and vigour and humour, and a comic wit, having ...
— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
... suave Wenceslas to his exasperated superior, "may I propose that you defer action until I can discover the exact status ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... then?" said the woman, getting exasperated, while her companion looked at her with some envy. "It will hardly be ...
— Romola • George Eliot
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