Look back and view The strange confusion of the vale below, Where sour vexation reigns; see yon poor jade, In vain the impatient rider frets and swears, With galling spurs harrows his mangled sides; He can no more: his stiff unpliant limbs 120 Rooted in earth, unmoved and fixed he stands, For every cruel curse returns a groan, And sobs, and faints, and dies.

displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet; malaise; inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit; taking; discontent &c 832. dejection &c 837; weariness &c 841; anhedonia^. annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague, bore; bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre

annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener^; bore, bother, pother, hot water, sea of troubles

disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret &c 833; repining, taking on &c v.; heart-burning, heart-grief; querulousness &c (lamentation) 839; hypercriticism. inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness; worry, concern, fear &c 860.

So in the stocks we three poor men were stuck for six mortal hours, which was a wicked, cruel thing indeed, with the wind blowing a sort of rainy snow about our ears; and there I do think we must have perished of cold and vexation but that our little Moll brought us a sheet for a cover, and tired not in giving us kind words of comfort.

* Vexation is the attitude of the individual as intelligence towards the check imposed upon a strong manifestation of the individual as will.

and is it not amongst the rich, the upper classes, that we find faces full of ill-humor and vexation?

Once more hope revived in Baerle's mind, but Rosa often suffered vexation because Cornelius thought more of his black tulip than of her.

D'Artagnan, conscious of a certain want of politeness in his treatment of Athos and Porthos, and determined to be more obliging in future, stooped and picked up the handkerchiefmuch to the vexation of Aramis, who denied all claim to the delicate piece of cambric.

"It means, sire," the cardinal replied, with vexation, "that I was anxious to present her majesty with two studs, but did not dare to offer them myself.

Vexation and anger were expressed by the savages in being thus disappointed.

Salcedo heard of this with vexation at being passed over; but, when he recovered from his jealousy, he was entrusted with the subjugation of Camarines, which he accomplished in a short time.

The laborers, during the time of harvest, are supported by the planter, who is during that time exposed to great vexation, if not losses.

The opinion of those who have had the misfortune to be obliged to recur to these tribunals is, that it is better to suffer wrong than encounter both the expense and vexation of a resort to them for justice.

He did not, indeed, go so far as his late Attorney-general, Sir J. Campbell, who, in vexation at his loss of office, had even threatened the Duke with impeachment; but, though he admitted that the Duke had been free from the guilty intention of exercising the authority of these offices, he suggested that "the Lords ought to pass some resolution calculated to prevent so great a breach of the constitution from being drawn into a precedent.

Naturally, much delay and vexation were caused by this display of official ineptitude.

'I did not yield to vexation today, nor the next day, nor so on for two or three months, but I restrained myself under various provocations.'

He saw one bright flash, whether of real anger or simply vexation at his reversion to the theme he could not tell, and her lashes dropped; she ran the leaf edges of the austere Marcus back and forth in her fingers, thip-thip-thip.

No doubt!" concluded the Doge, in high good humor, all the vexation of his diary seemingly forgotten as he left the room.

These reduced me at once to submission, and I am almost ashamed to confess that, either through pain or vexation, there came a few tears into my eyes.

"Oh, wellif you want me to look like a scarecrow, and not get asked again, I've got a dress that'll do PERFECTLY," Undine threatened, in a tone between banter and vexation.

Le Croix's brow grew darker, but he tried to conceal his vexation, and quietly said, "Darling, never mind.

"Matter enough!" said the angry wife, her cheeks red with excitement and her eyes half blinded with tears of vexation.

I was almost ready to die with vexation; but this shall never happen again.

"Well, perverse Pamela, ungrateful creature, you do well, don't you, to give me all this trouble and vexation?" I could not speak, but sobb'd and sigh'd, as if my heart would break.