vexes

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Or wouldst thou mine a passage deep Until the darksome fire is found, Which prisoned long in seething sleep Vexes the caverns underground?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

Then, if you plan it, he Changes organity, With an urbanity, Full of Satanity, Vexes humanity With an inanity Fatal to vanity— Driving your foes to the verge of insanity!

From Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

In all the Witchcraft which now Grievously Vexes us, I know not whether anything be more Unaccountable, than the Trick which the Witches have to render themselves, and their Tools Invisible.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton

For Rávaṇ's brother, overbold, Named Khara, of gigantic mould, Vexes with fury fierce and fell All those in Janasthán399 who dwell.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

And then, if you plan it, he Changes organity, With an urbanity, Full of Satanity, Vexes humanity With an inanity Fatal to vanity— Driving your foes to the verge of insanity!

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir