Which preposition to use with vexation

of Occurrences 101%

The umpires are always with us, and the umpire problem has been a vexation of Base Ball since the beginning of Base Ball time, yet neither the umpires, the public, the club owners nor the league officials need be discouraged, for it was fully proved in 1912 that umpiring, as a fine art, has advanced a step nearer perfection.

at Occurrences 32%

[-21-] If you did not perceive it immediately at the start or experience vexation at each of his actions, he deserves to be hated all the more on this account, in that he does not cease injuring you, who are so long-suffering.

to Occurrences 20%

My inopportune arrival was evidently a great and unlooked-for vexation to him.

in Occurrences 18%

"I'm so ashamed," said Myrtle, tears of vexation in her eyes as she rejoined her friends.

with Occurrences 8%

" Directly he had finished speaking she came to him joyously, began fawning on him and prancing round him so that in spite of his vexation with her, and being cold, he could not help stroking her.

on Occurrences 8%

The Samnites, being forced to fly into their camp, extinguished their fires at night, and marched away in silence; and renouncing all hopes of relieving Saticula, sat themselves down before Plistia, which was in alliance with the Romans, that they might, if possible, retort equal vexation on their enemy.

from Occurrences 4%

He was happy enough, he said: but I was told that he had to endure much vexation from the neighbouring Negroes, who were Baptists, narrow and conceited; and whojust as the Baptists of the lower class in England would be but too apt to dotormented him by telling him that he was not sure of heaven, because he went to church instead of joining their body.

by Occurrences 4%

It has been asserted, indeed, that the price of a license is now so small, that none who are inclined to deal in spirits will neglect to secure themselves from punishment and vexation by procuring it; and that no man will subject himself to the malice of a profligate, by carrying on an illicit trade, which the annual expense of twenty shillings will make legal.

for Occurrences 4%

And the gals that I danced with, light-hearted and airy, It’s scarcely they’d notice poor Paddy Malone. Tis twelve months or more since our ship she cast anchor In happy Australia, the Emigrant’s home, And from that day to this there’s been nothing but canker, And grafe and vexation for Paddy Malone.

over Occurrences 3%

" She could have wept with vexation over the way her scheme had gone awry but there was clearly nothing else to do.

as Occurrences 2%

He had seen and felt so much of sharp misery, that he was not affected by paltry vexations; and he seemed to think that everybody ought to be as much hardened to those vexations as himself.

than Occurrences 1%

Whether it be, that life has more vexations than comforts, or, what is in the event just the same, that evil makes deeper impression than good, it is certain that few can review the time past without heaviness of heart.

like Occurrences 1%

completely she had filled up that gaping wound in his affections from which he once thought he must have bled hopelessly to death; how entirely he was bound up in her happiness, and how, even in an hour of trouble, danger, and vexation like this, his chief anxiety was lest it should bring sorrow and suffering to her.

under Occurrences 1%

Her heart was getting lighter as the vexations under which she had so long fretted began to disappear.

behind Occurrences 1%

They drove him from his half-eaten supper into the shop, to close it for the night, his ears aflame and tears of vexation behind his spectacles.

without Occurrences 1%

"Is not my life full of vexations without this deluge of tears at home?

Which preposition to use with  vexation