Yet his voice had something peculiar in its tones when he undertook the explanation of the mystery.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

According to the custom of the Jews, the sacred name Jehovah or Jah-ve, composed of the four letters yod, he, vau, he, which formed the Tetragrammaton, was never to be pronounced by the profane, who were obliged to substitute for it the word "Adonai."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

If Mrs. Mudge was rather pudgier than one would like one's swamis, yogis, seers, and initiates, yet her voice had the real professional note.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The well of life , ° ne yet his vertues had forgot.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Sir Paul Eitherside will’d mee gi’ you caution, Whom you did make Feoffee : for ’tis the truſt O’ your whole State: and though my Cousin heere 30 Be a worthy Gentleman, yet his valour has At the tall board bin queſtion’d: and we hold Any man ſo impeach’d, of doubtfull honesty!
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

We expect something new... How absurd, and yet how vexatious! H2 anchor
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

You have vexed him.
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Often have I seen her steal away at twilight To the cabin rude where once he lived, her hero, Where of yore his voice had welcomed her in greeting; Or again, when none is by to watch her mourning For the old days when she roamed a princess free, I myself have overheard her quiet weeping.
— from Pocahontas: A Poem by Virginia Carter Castleman

Yet his very hair rose on end at the idea of going out for the afternoon and evening in the company of this New Zealand damsel, to whom he was expected to pay so much attention.
— from The Girls of St. Cyprian's: A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil

“'Perhaps you'll tell us this was the first time you have visited her,' he purrs.
— from The Woman-Haters by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

"Now see," said Mrs. Villars, "how you have vexed him."
— from Mabel: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Newby, C. J., Mrs.

Hath our young heroine veiled her light;— For see, she walks the earth, Love's own.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Her parents designed Henrietta for their own profession, and in her eighth year her voice had acquired such steadiness that she sang minor parts at the theatre.
— from Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by George T. (George Titus) Ferris

Ella, tell papa you are sorry if you have vexed him.
— from The Third Miss St Quentin by Mrs. Molesworth

The reader may imagine that it was extremely indiscreet for the detective to give away his plans to Elliston, but Dyke Darrel had known this man for more than a year, had visited him in New York, and found him to be well thought of there, and he had more than once confided in him, to find him as true as steel.
— from Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective; Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express by A. Frank Pinkerton

"I am sure you will make your husband very happy.
— from Dimbie and I—and Amelia by Mabel Barnes-Grundy

I pray you—" Her voice had sunk to a whisper, and now it failed.
— from The Rustlers of Pecos County by Zane Grey