And all the while Robin talked so quaintly to the Bishop and the Knight that, the one forgetting his vexation and the other his troubles, they both laughed aloud again and again.

" "Thou art right; but he might have caused me great vexation.

My wonder was that so many were vilely ungrateful to him, at which he never showed any vexation.

" The fun in her eyes did not conceal the vexation.

The Baker experiences the same vexation, as he sees his loaves passed by and mockingly made light of.

Never did captive, heir, or lover, feel so much vexation from the slow pace of time, as I suffered between the purchase of my ticket and the distribution of the prizes.

This measure caused the soldier element to become somewhat more conciliatory, but that very thing produced vexation again among the people.

Unless I was to suffer endlessly these petty vexations, I must find a bold stroke to end them.

"You thought, sir!" says the great man, willing to vent his vexation on some one.

It was not only that her own life, and lives far dearer to her than her own, were exposed to daily and hourly peril, or that to this danger were added repeated vexations of hopes baffled and trusts betrayed; but these griefs were largely aggravated by the character and conduct of those nearest to her.

I feel in myself a proof of this assertion, being much against my will at Venice, though I own it is the only great town where I can properly reside, yet here I find so many vexations, that, in spite of all my philosophy and (what is more powerful) my phlegm, I am oftener out of humour than among my plants and poultry in the country.

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.

Ali Bey mentions other vexations and oppressions, and adds, "When I saw the Jews were so ill-treated and vexed in every way, I asked them why they did not go to another country.

In the course of the evening Amelia coquetted so desperately with a dashing Colonel that the Count could not suppress his vexation.

" As Grace's little foot moved, and her voice betrayed vexation, the whole party smiled; for the whole party, while it felt the justice of Eve's observation, saw the real feeling that was at the bottom of her cousin's remark.

she rejoined, trying to hide her vexation in a smile.

'To teach the minuter decencies and inferiour duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation, was first attempted by Casa in his book of Manners, and Castiglione in his Courtier; two books yet celebrated in Italy for purity and elegance.

Nobody but a jobber can know the vexation of a jobber who cannot find money to cash his notes when they are beginning to be thrown into the market at a price a shade lower than his neighbor's notes are sold at.

"'You had better keep this book for yourself, little Methodist,' I exclaimed, trying to laugh off my vexation.

Farewell, farewell; the world is your's; pray take it, I'll leave vexation, and with joy forsake it.

I did not tell Eveena of my request till it had been refused; and if anything could have lessened my vexation at the loss of this third opportunity, it would have been the expression of her countenance at that moment.

" Feeling the need of some safety-valve to let off his vexation, he selected poor Tom for that purpose.

Sir Wynston not only enjoyed his own superiority with all the vanity of a selfish nature, but he no less enjoyed, with a keen and malicious relish, the intense mortification which, he was well assured, Marston must experience; and all the more acutely, because of the utter impossibility, circumstanced as he was, of his taking any steps to manifest his vexation, without compromising himself in a most unpleasant way.

La Salle built Fort Crèvecoeur (cra'v-ker, a word meaning heart-break, vexation).

Meanwhile, to solace our infirmity and mitigate the vexation and sorrow which persecution might cause us, a good reward is held forth: