William felt in the mood for a short soliloquy of indignation, for Katharine had contrived to exasperate him in more ways than one.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
When these two played at the domestic game of exasperate-my-neighbour, the temper lost by the one was picked up by the other, and added to his or her pack.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Certainly if I had to live with these people for an immeasurable time, it might be prudent not to exasperate them, and to bow before them-prudent, but annoying, and in my opinion, hardly worth the while.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse