How To Use Vex In A Sentence

The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. a few small black hairs garnish the sides of the base of the upper chap. the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large. it's legs feet and tallons are white; the legs are an inch and a 1/4 in length and smoth; four toes on each foot, of which that in front is the same length with the leg including the length of the tallon, which is 4 lines; the three remaining toes are The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Starting from the cardiac orifice at the incisura cardiaca, it forms an arch backward, upward, and to the left; the highest point of the convexity is on a level with the sixth left costal cartilage. XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Stomach
He was vexed and flounced out of the dining room.
The exact particulars of the similarity never came to light, but apparently the lady had, in a fit of high-minded inadvertence, had gone through the ceremony of marriage with, one quotes the unpublished discourse of Mr. Butteridge — “a white-livered skunk,” and this zoological aberration did in some legal and vexatious manner mar her social happines. The War in the Air

It is the Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags).
Sources expect there is little chance of agreement between the two sides on the vexed issue of overtime, expected to hit 64 million this year.
This problem, which has vexed Jewish philosophers since Philo Judaeus, had recently received elaborate treatment by Maimonides. Gersonides
This coin, too, was designed to deal with the question of foreign currency circulating in the state - indeed, it represents one of the earliest attempts to solve that vexatious problem.
Made of Austenitic stainless steel. There is no dead angle, no concave - convex face.
P. testa ovata, rimata, ferruginea; spira mediocri, apice eroso; anfractibus tribus, convexis, simplicibus, transversim crebre crenato-striatis; apertura ovata, intus purpurascente; labio tenui, late reflexo; labro acuto. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
The question of acquisitions is a vexed one. Times, Sunday Times
Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
The inscription above the arch, "To a happy and prosperous entrance," seemed a mockery in the old douanier days, when delays and extortions vexed the soul of the visitor, and produced a mood anything but favourable to the enjoyment of the Eternal City. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
With the one exception of its monstrous size, there were the characteristics in plain view; -- the convex body, the large head, the projecting clypeus. The Beetle
Caspar, a blessing of a human being, with his expression as open as a convex mirror. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
But he might have fallen into the veteran's trap of looking for easy solutions to vexing problems. FOOLS GOLD
Ophelia leaps about and barks, indignant at a style of hunting so contrary to her habits; and Sir Ralph, astride the stone railing, is smoking a cigar and, as usual, looking on impassively at other people's pleasure or vexation. Indiana
It vexed him that the golden deeds of his youth had been largely forgotten and that no knighthood had been bestowed. Times, Sunday Times
She'd given him no instructions just as the stresses of his situation began to vex him.
But it's the willingness to indignify others, and the fact that we are still collectively holding our tongues -- as previous generations did about racism -- that lies at the root of many of the problems that vex us today. Robert Fuller: Racism and Rankism: We Won't Eradicate the One Until We Take on the Other
Perhaps it's just that the concept of an oncolytic virus, which is what OncoVex actually is, sounds a little exotic. Espirito Santo's Surprise Loan Move
The king's persistency in begging her not to veil so austerely a face which the gods had made for the admiration of men, his evident vexation upon her refusal to appear in Greek costume at the sacrifices and public solemnities, his unsparing raillery at what he termed her barbarian shyness, all tended to convince her that the young King Candaules
Spiritus quoque aeris et mali genii aliquando se tempestatibus ingerunt, et menti humanae se latenter insinuant, eamque vexant, exagitant, et ut fluctus marini, humanum corpus ventis agitatur. Anatomy of Melancholy
The question vexing the government 's PR minders is whether they have spotted which bit could cause the most trouble. Times, Sunday Times
But, when he cometh back from his journey, all will not be save well458: so go ye to your shops and sell and buy, for this vexation is removed from you. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
[10] “Quemadmodum enim nobis arrhabonem Spiritus reliquit, ita et a nobis arrhabonem carnis accepit, et vexit in cœlum, pignus totius summæ illuc quandoque redigendæ.” — Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
If the Social Democratic policy has chafed occasionally, the benefits far outweigh the vexations.
For example, the vexed problem of alcohol abuse is argued by some to be amenable to outside intervention.
The posterior chamber is separated from the vitreous body by a transparent biconvex lens.
In fact, a plano-convex crystal lens has been found among the ruins of Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
That will really vex me when I publish in book form. New FIC...just because...BEDTIME STORY
But what we need to take action on is vexatious claims. The Sun
They've brought down and broken the government the way a truckload of fertilizer, nitromethane and Tovex brought down the federal building in Oklahoma. Steven Weber: Crime of the Century
She takes hold of my hand, and having roll'd up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I miss'd the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Fanny Hill, Part II (first letter)
McElwee contrasts convex and concave forms with building recesses and relief carvings.
vex the subject of the death penalty
Yesterday, he was vexed and frustrated as the weekend's fatalities ensured a flood of calls from journalists.
particularly vexing aspects of modern life.
The inferior has eight distinct ridges none of which reach the apex; these divide this strongly convex face into nine slightly concave facets, of which those adjacent to the carinae are the widest, (Fig. 36, A.) side view, natural size, (Fig. 37,) viewed from the point, showing the division into parts and its polygonal form. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
the vexed parents of an unruly teenager
A polarity is set up between the assertive convex solidity of Broadcasting House and the receptive concavity and lightness of the suspended facade.
Fore and hind may bend either both backwards, as the figures marked A, or in the opposite way both forwards, as in B, or in converse ways and not in the same direction, as in C where the fore bend forwards and the hind bend backwards, or as in D, the opposite way to C, where the convexities are turned towards one another and the concavities outwards. On the Gait of Animals
A look of vexation or a word coldly spoken, or a little help thoughtlessly withheld, may produce long issues of regret. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
It must be vexing to find oneself becoming a fictional character in old age. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the huge vexation it certainly causes, many of us have become so accustomed to it that we look upon it as a ‘normal’ phenomenon or something laughable.
Only this bike offers adjustability for toe-in in its road brakes via concave/convex washers.
Mr. Darcy frowned while he normally enjoyed Miss Elizabeth's coyness, at time like these it could be most vexing.
A large convex molding, semicircular in cross section, located at the base of a classical column.
As he stepped upon the bridge the trumpets sounded, and over the aplustre rose the vexillum purpureum, or pennant of a commander of a fleet. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
Mr Kenzler said: ‘It is good to be exonerated from vexatious and childish allegations.’
As a Yorkshire born Aussie, the question of Scottish antipathy to the English has vexed me often.
The convex shape of the hill made approaches to it from below difficult to detect. IN LOVE AND WAR
So might cover the marbles with gladwrap first as a buffer to keep their convexness from being too convex. September 12th, 2007
This week, Mr Dhillon wrote to our letters page to say he denied all the allegations in their entirety, claiming that he was being ‘used as a scapegoat in political wranglings arising from spurious and vexatious allegations’.
Meanwhile, true to form the National party is saying that the case is vexatious and ‘an absurd waste of time and taxpayer money’.
I could tell there was a certain vexation that had overcome him, as though talking to me was some sort of obtuse chore and not a pleasant experience.
She was starting to feel a bit vexed and it displeased her greatly.
The body is prismoid in form, narrower above than below, and slightly curved, so as to be convex lateralward. II. Osteology. 6a. 5. The Radius
The steroid treatment consisted of three implants per ear inserted subcutaneously on the convex surface of the ear.
In 1830 Lander solved the vexed question of where the Niger debouched into the sea.
To do this a double sage-knife is run flatwise between the coronary cushion and the cartilage, with the convex surface of the blade towards the skin. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
A good man may be in want, but then he quiets himself, and strives to make himself easy; but these people when they shall be hungry shall fret themselves, and when they have nothing to feed on their vexation shall prey upon their own spirits; for fretfulness is a sin that is its own punishment. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
From the level of tooth one to tooth five, the lateral surface is slightly convex.
No crosses, no vexations, but what we gave ourselves from the pamperedness, as I may call it, of our own wills. Clarissa Harlowe
When you glimpse your face in a shop window it appears as if you're struggling with some incredibly vexing problem. Times, Sunday Times
The chapter of Vexiö consisted of dean, archdeacon, subdean, and eleven prebendaries. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]
The = pileus = is thin, conic, bell-shaped to convex and nearly expanded, sometimes with a small umbo, smooth, and finely striate on the margin, in age the striæ sometimes rugulose from the upturning of the margin. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
Their molds demonstrate that lenses were numerous, biconvex, hexagonal in outline and arranged in an hexagonal close-packing system.
All distress, annoyance, frustration, vexation and so on is a reaction to things perceived through the senses, usually of sight or hearing.
This is most vexing and I think a serious clarification of our respective roles in this relationship should be undertaken, pronto.
The upper mandible, which is strongly convex, exhibits upon its median line a slight ridge, which is quite wide at its origin, and then continues to decrease and becomes sensibly depressed as far as to the center of its length, and afterward rises on approaching the anterior extremity, where it terminates in a powerful hook, which seems to form Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
Negative refraction implies that a converging lens made from negative-index material should have a concave surface rather than a convex one.
There is something about this musical distinction that vexes me, but for the sake of the argument I'd say upbeat rock 'n' roll.
A convex polygon with a triangle attached to one of its edges in this way is called a barbed polygon.
All these issues meet in the vexed question of governance.
In this way plano-convex lenses are easily and cheaply made. On Laboratory Arts
Ten minutes before the closing bell, a "vexing" out-of-the-money trade went through on the American Stock Exchange on options of the drugstore chain, said Rebecca Engmann Darst, an equity-options analyst at Interactive Brokers. Big Trade in CVS Draws Focus
V. testa turbinata, globoso-conica, late umbilicata, spira elatiuscula, epidermide tenui fusco-viridi obtecta; anfractibus convexis, ad suturas subplanatis, faciis tribus vel quatuor angustis olivaceo-viridibus transversis ornatis; anfractu ultimo inflato, lineis duabus impressis ad peripheriam instructo; apertura ovata, postice subangulata; labio simplici; labro acuto. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
And owls, I hear, have eyes as big as the glasses of a convex lamp. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
The Bishop spoke with apparent vexation, but his heart had bounded in the upspring of a great relief. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century
It weighs 440 g. One surface is smoothly convex and may have been used as a grinding stone.
There was also the vexed question of storage. Times, Sunday Times
vex," therefore, is the heightening of grieving by a provocation unto anger and indignation: which sense is suited to the place and matter treated of, though the word signify no more but to "grieve;" and so it is rendered by lupeo, Gen. xlv. Pneumatologia
Thankfully, as two of these books show, a degree of clarity has emerged after much vexed exegesis. Christianity Today
Mrs. Norris was too much vexed to submit with a good grace.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
Narrow, smooth longitudinal ridges are visible on both sides of a wide, more or less elevated central convexity with a rather irregular surface.
The oral shield is rhombic but often with an obtuse proximal angle and a convex distal edge.
+Cap+ dark chestnut color, 1½ to 2½ inches broad, thick, convex, covered with a tough gluten, margin inflexed, flesh white or yellowish. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
These are smooth, with a slight silvery sheen on the grooved upper surface, sculptured with raised veins on the convex lower surface, and with a few crenations on the margins.
Friday morning, first day of the test I still vex but I was acceptant of my fate.
In spite of that she had it announced and advertised, ... and in the end there only came of it a vexatious mancando, perdendosi! Letters
It is better to sit down in a modest ignorance, and rest contented with the natural blessing of our own reasons, than by the uncertain knowledge of this life with sweat and vexation, which death gives every fool gratis, and is an accessary of our glorification. Religio Medici
Plague on it!" cried Telemachus, laying the bow aside with an air of vexation, "must I be called a poltroon all my life, or is it that I have not yet attained the full measure of my strength? Stories from the Odyssey
Their upper surfaces, however, vary from convex to exceptionally flat.
Bricks still plano-convex; stamped inscriptions begin. How to Observe in Archaeology
One young buckeen said, if I'd go into the tavern and take share of a quart of mulled beer with him, he'd make that bargain with me, and that so vexed me that I turned home at once.
I would rather do that than attempt to define what vexation and oppression mean; they must vary with the circumstances of each case.
(Gr. [Greek: kissos], ivy), biconvex; xystroidal or sistroidal (Gr. [Greek: xystris], a tool for scraping), concavo-convex; amphicoelic Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
But conservatives and liberals alike should find plenty that cheers and vexes them in essays by righties Bernard Goldberg, Peggy Noonan, and Georgette Mosbacher and lefties Nancy Pelosi, President Bill Clinton, and Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. Crossroads: The Future of American Politics By Andrew Cuomo «
And he was sore vexed and did tell the victor on the field, a knight that hight Sir Arsenius, that for all his men were worsted in the fray, natheless they did fight in the better fashion.
Disposition has also its concave and convex lenses, which magnify some things and minify others. The True Citizen, How to Become One
It's just the nature of these rules which will always be vexed and under constant modification.
It was vexing, therefore, to meet Sam Noble at the cattle grid. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
He certainly did get more annoyed and vexed than other people seemed to, when things didn't quite go his way.
Galileo's telescope consisted of two lenses -- one plano-convex, the other plano-concave, the latter being held next the eye. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
The _first glume_ is concave, pale yellow, shining and cartilaginous to about 2/3 its length from the base, and the upper third is membranous, dimidiately ovate; at the back in the cartilaginous portion, there are three to six deep convex smooth ridges running across the glume; the membranous tip is thin and with anastomosing green veins; the margins of this glume are thick, narrowly incurved, ciliolate, and with a narrow wing on the outer margin. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
It is, he says, a problem that has always vexed the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. Times, Sunday Times
One possible solution is doing some kind of ActiveX control in Java. Freelancer.com - New Projects
The debate about private car use in York has vexed York's politicians and transport planners for decades.
The Institute is also the largest vexillological membership organization in the world.
Fecisti quod quædam mulieres facere solent, quando libidinem se vexantem extinguere volunt, quæ se conjungunt quasi coire debeant et possint, et conjungunt invicem puerperia sua, et sic, fricando pruritum illarum extinguere desiderant? The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional
The legacy of Buffalo Bill's fight with Yellow Hair vexed the plainsman in his own day and survives among the myths of the American West.
Convex, anteriorly truncate glabella tapers forward and is outlined by broad, shallow axial and preglabellar furrows.
Depending on the structural nature of the objects such as convexity and disjointness, the resulting clipped object may itself be disjoint or may contain islands and other interesting properties. The Code Project Latest Articles
After surviving the pseudo-vexfoot's assault, the haustorium-firing fungus, and the rain drain that had swallowed Clarity, it was almost ironic that he should stumble on a dry, smooth chunk of rock. Flinx In Flux
The quiet precinct of the church - yard becomes an unquiet sea of death in which the sleep of the rude Forefathers, forever laid ‘each in his narrow cell,’ seems vexed by a restlessness that will severely tax the poet's resources.
What vexed me enough that all those details would matter, however, was the film's treatment of women.
Avex officials say young people have no qualms about copying and distributing music.
The shell is fusiform and thick, and has a conical spire and a papillated apex; whirls, convex and contracted near the sutures, and the two principal whirls are ornamented with short ribs; lines of growth distinct, and crossed by faint revolving lines; plaits, two and rather distant, and faint indications of an intermediate one. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
We, at least, shall not extend the vexation of this Spanish gentleman by quoting any part of this unfortunate _bevue_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
The body protoplasm is generally crescentic; there are two chromatin masses, the larger one, the nucleus, on the side of the convexity, the other narrower, more deeply stained situated usually on the edge of the concavity, the centrosome. Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. Galileo Galilei
He on the ground, my speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and when my lust hath dined, which, as I say, to vex her, I will execute in the clothes that she so praised, to the court Ill knock her back, foot her home again. Act III. Scene V. Cymbeline
The Pentamerida were biconvex with incurved beaks and were characterized by an internal muscle platform, the spondylium.
The sense of his insufficiency was the more vexatious to Mowbray, as he was aware he would find sharp critics in the ladies, and particularly in his constant rival, Lady Penelope Penfeather. Saint Ronan's Well
Some early Shields are represented as _bowed_ -- hollowed, that is, in order to cover more closely the person of the bearer, and consequently having a convex external contour, as in No. 39. The Handbook to English Heraldry
With bitter physic purge the bitter bile," [730] so vexed and bitter are you at people's weaknesses and infirmities, which is not reasonable in you. Plutarch's Morals
Even more so than in Morganucodon, the anterior lamina of the petrosal is medially convex, leaving deep fossa for the semilunar ganglion, the root node of the trigeminal nerve.
This was a very vexatious issue in the first place and the way it was constructed caused a lot of angst.
Round at health they are vexed by news of cigarette smoke blowing back through open doors. Times, Sunday Times
There are some people who like to see you post next chapters without any vexing cunctations.
The = pileus = is hemispherical to convex, and expanded, smooth, whitish, with a tinge of straw color, and covered with torn, thin floccose patches of the upper half of the circumscissile volva. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
But now such as justly deserve the names of complacencies and joys are wholly refined from their contraries, and are immixed with neither vexation, remorse, nor repentance; and their good is congenial to the mind and truly mental and genuine, and not superinduced. Essays and Miscellanies
He likened this to asking an artisan to explain how the convex surface of a peg can possibly fill that of a concave hole.
All week leading up to the test match I was vex, fuming, I had it up to here.
How did her Government's decision to amend the Resource Management Act 1991 last year by removing the Environment Court's power to grant security for costs help reduce the problem of frivolous and vexatious objectors?
Towards the suture the elytron is raised so as to form a very prominent keel down the back of elytra; the general surface of the elytra is somewhat pustulose, and there are three slightly elevated, longitudinal lines, nearly meeting (but indistinctly) behind on the convex part of each elytron. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
The question that has long vexed evolutionary biologists is whether these ornaments actually tell you anything about the genetic health of a male.
Their pleasures gave but a pinchbeck joviality after all, were but a thin lacker spread over mercenary cares and heart-aching jealousies -- not the jealousies of passion, but the nipping vulgar vexation with which a shopkeeper trembles lest a customer should go to his rival over the way. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
The green question is especially vexing as both sides bandy scientific studies involving so many variables that the Natural Resources Defense Council considers the issue a wash when it comes to disposables in a landfill versus reusables in the laundry. Cloth or disposables? Half-century debate still on
Spenser uses often ‘to welk’ (welken) in the sense of to fade, ‘to sty’ for to mount, ‘to hery’ as to glorify or praise, ‘to halse’ as to embrace, ‘teene’ as vexation or grief: Shakespeare ‘to tarre’ as to provoke, ‘to sperr’ as to enclose or bar in; ‘to sag’ for to droop, or hang the head downward. English Past and Present
With no need to allow for a transmission, shifter and cardan tunnel, the designers took advantage of the opportunity to create a particularly slim and lightweight centre tunnel and convex, arching centre console. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
A steady-state example would be a concavo-convex slope profile with a concave lower portion and a convex upper slope typical of humid climates.
After Hardwar the valleys would occasionally widen into a great green opera of cultivation terraces, falling away like the tiers of a Greek amphitheatre into the convex bowl of the mountainside.
The anterior slope is long and straight to weakly convex, while the posterior slope is concave and more steeply inclined than that of N. hazeni.
Isaiah threw a pair of clean socks at my head in a paroxysm of vexation.
Generally, foreland basins show convex-up subsidence curves due to increasing subsidence rates through time resulting from migration of a supra-crustal orogenic load towards the foreland.
The capital, which should be as high as the radius of the bottom of the column, is composed of an abacus, an echinus (a convex moulding with gently swelling curve), and annulets (or rings) next to the column.
But, interestingly, the whole question of incommensurability and incomparability is at the center of a new paper I am completing on the vexed issue of proportionality in the laws of war. The Volokh Conspiracy » Mallaby on Soros and the Pound, and Some Other Summer Reading in Philosophy and Economics
But what Herbert proposes is no mere flight from awkward questions and a vexatious world.
The other, who played the piffero, was a man of middle age, stout, vigorous, with a forest of tangled black hair, and dark quick eyes that were fixed steadily on the Virgin, while he blew and vexed the little brown pipe with rapid runs and nervous fioriture, until great drops of sweat dripped from its round open mouth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
Keel angle and body concavity / convexity measurements (described above) were recorded from CT scans at several locations along the body.
The stone tool assemblage includes convex end scrapers, bifacially-flaked small knives, and flattened discoids and microliths.
And here, at the end of it all, I pore over books of astronomy from the prison library, such as they allow condemned men to read, and learn that even the heavens are passing fluxes, vexed with star - driftage as the earth is by the drifts of men. Chapter 21
This question of how to conceive of human mental capacities is a vexed one.
For in that great malady which had so vexed her that she lay in her bed, she arose and did her to be borne from one place to another, and did spin a fine small cloth of which she made more than fifty corporas, and sent them in fair towels of silk into divers churches in divers places of Assisi. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
The subsidies have been a vexed issue between the two biggest trading blocs in the world and a source of anger among developing countries, who claim they are being shut out of western markets.
However, its most obvious feature would almost certainly have been the convex crests that grew from the dorsolateral edges of the squamosal bones at the back of its skull. Archive 2006-09-01
Tot mundi superstitiones quot coelo stellae, one saith, there be as many superstitions in the world, as there be stars in heaven, or devils themselves that are the first founders of them: with such ridiculous, absurd symptoms and signs, so many several rites, ceremonies, torments and vexations accompanying, as may well express and beseem the devil to be the author and maintainer of them. Anatomy of Melancholy
I will vex the broad Aegean sea; and the beach of Myconus and the reefs round Delos, Scyros and Lemnos too, and the cliffs of Caphareus shall be strown with many a corpse. The Trojan Women
And if you decide to follow the DIY route, there is the vexed issue of finding reputable tradesmen. Times, Sunday Times
The coins of these two Greek states in particular were for a long period concavo-convex disks, the convex side being in all instances the obverse. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886
And his equanimity didn't help matters, especially when she was vexed at him.
I wouldn't say your stomach was big — it's just slightly convex.
There is alfo an ancipital leaf, having two prominent longitudinal angles, with a convex difk •, as in Sifyrhichium. The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...
Dinna ye ken, Nelly woman, his presence will vex you no longer? you're at liberty to go your own gate, and be as you have been -- that was his propine," whispered Lady Staneholme, in sorrowful perplexity, but without rousing Nelly from her stupor. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
The cervical curve, convex forward, begins at the apex of the odontoid process, and ends at the middle of the second thoracic vertebra; it is the least marked of all the curves. II. Osteology. 3b. The Vertebral Column as a Whole
Caspar, a blessing of a human being, with his expression as open as a convex mirror. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
Yes, it's sad that we are still vexed by the very same issues.
Gladstone sees him level, Bloom for Bloom. he passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington, but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy. Ulysses
The French word _ennui_, which now only means weariness of mind, signified formerly injury, and the vexation or hatred caused thereby; something like the English word "annoy," as in Shakespeare's Richard III., v. 3: Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband
The crystalline lens, which provides approximately 30% of the refractive power, is biconvex and has the ability to change its shape to increase or decrease its focusing power.
The lateral profile is trigonal, and the posterior rostral face convex.
In general, the north sides are concave in both their horizontal and vertical sections, having been sculptured into this shape by the residual glaciers that lingered in the protecting northern shadows, while the sun-beaten south sides, having never been subjected to this kind of glaciation, are convex or irregular. The Yosemite
Those are tools useful in the field of convex processing, and more precisely to solve a problem called convex feasbility ... Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
Galileo's telescope had a convex object lens but a concave eye-piece.
He also studied infinite series, the gamma function and inequalities for convex functions.
There is also evidence of a borzoi cross entering the mix along the way, that evidence revealing itself in the convex profile of the bull terrier's head.
What vexes me, having observed this game over the last couple years, is that the people accused of being inside-the-beltway sellouts are often the folks who write exactly what they believe; whereas the kinds of publications that rank-and-file conservatives revere for “never selling out” actually do so all the time. The Georgetown Cocktail Party Paradox
She was trying for a sultry pout, and achieving an expression of sullen vexation instead.
The telescope contains a large convex mirror to collect the light.
Also rabbit-foot clover, mullein, day-lilies, and the first of the vexed purple loosestrife of the season. Sunday roadkill report
The man seemed to have grasped the essence of standing aloof from worldly anxieties and vexations.
This paper considers a convex programming with an additional reverse convex constraint. A kind of conical branch and bound method is developed and convergence conditions are obtained.
But take heed withal, lest that whilst thou dust settle thy contentment in things present, thou grow in time so to overprize them, as that the want of them (whensoever it shall so fall out) should be a trouble and a vexation unto thee. Meditations
If memory serves, weren’t bars of soap convexed on both sides? Mouse Print»Blog Archive » Skimpy Peanut Butter — Part 2
Significantly, the vexatious litigant is not deprived of the right to bring proceedings.
Vexations and a tempest of passion only fill his sail; as the good Luther writes, “When I am angry, I can pray well and preach well”: and, if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck. Representative Men
And owls, I hear, have eyes as big as the glasses of a convex lamp. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Marbles at one end and cannon-balls at the other, Maz was all about convexities. Warthearm
While the UN loss was no surprise given Russia's and China's joint aversion to UN/NATO mission creep in Libya the double veto camouflages a more vexing development in the Eastern Mediterranean: a renewed effort by Russia's Vladimir Putin to reconsolidate a foot-hold in the Middle East against anti-democratic forces. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Syria's Double Diplomatic Muscle
In Roman artwork, any vexillum which isn't just blank (due to loss of painted detail) has only lettering on it.
This hypothesis generates an infinite set of indifference curves which are convex to the L axis.
And owls, I hear, have eyes as big as the glasses of a convex lamp. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Parasitus ego sum hominis nequam atque improbi, militis, qui amicam secum avexit ex Samo. nunc me ire iussit ad eam et percontarier, utrum aurum reddat anne eat secum semul. tu dudum, puere, cum illae usque isti semul: quae harum sunt aedes, pulta. adi actutum ad fores. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
I have been so haunted by diabolical deceptions in this matter, that what do I know but that the devil may assume the form of this rustical juvenal, in order to procure me farther vexation? — The Monastery
Round at health they are vexed by news of cigarette smoke blowing back through open doors. Times, Sunday Times
A slight vacuum is pulled behind an aluminized mylar plastic film to create a very large convex mirror to collimate the visual system in many aircraft simulators. Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch

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