Citations:infuriate

English citations of infuriate

• 1615, Edwin Sandys, Sacred Hymns, Consisting of fifti select psalms of David and others, paraphrastically turned into English verse, London, “Psalm 2,” p. 2,^[1]

  What graceles fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright,

  Infuriate so; gainst God with mad attempts to fight?

• 1796, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Prospect of a Regicide Peace, London: J. Owen, Letter 2, p. 105,^[2]

  They tore the deputation of the Clergy to pieces by their infuriated declamations and invectives, before they lacerated their bodies by their massacres.

• 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Chapter 11,^[3]

  He bent over Oliver, and repeated the inquiry; but finding him really incapable of understanding the question; and knowing that his not replying would only infuriate the magistrate the more, and add to the severity of his sentence; he hazarded a guess.

• 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, 1962, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 131,^[4]

  I had […] no notion that the working class were human beings. […] I could agonise over their sufferings, but I still hated them and despised them when I came anywhere near them. I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness.

• 2022 August 3, Zaheena Rasheed, “Pelosi in Taiwan live news: Tsai slams ‘unnecessary’ China drills”, in Al Jazeera‎^[5], archived from the original on 03 August 2022:

  US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a one-day visit that has infuriated China.