How To Use Vexation In A Sentence

Ophelia leaps about and barks, indignant at a style of hunting so contrary to her habits; and Sir Ralph, astride the stone railing, is smoking a cigar and, as usual, looking on impassively at other people's pleasure or vexation. Indiana
The king's persistency in begging her not to veil so austerely a face which the gods had made for the admiration of men, his evident vexation upon her refusal to appear in Greek costume at the sacrifices and public solemnities, his unsparing raillery at what he termed her barbarian shyness, all tended to convince her that the young King Candaules
But, when he cometh back from his journey, all will not be save well458: so go ye to your shops and sell and buy, for this vexation is removed from you. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
If the Social Democratic policy has chafed occasionally, the benefits far outweigh the vexations.
She takes hold of my hand, and having roll'd up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I miss'd the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Fanny Hill, Part II (first letter)

A look of vexation or a word coldly spoken, or a little help thoughtlessly withheld, may produce long issues of regret. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
Despite the huge vexation it certainly causes, many of us have become so accustomed to it that we look upon it as a ‘normal’ phenomenon or something laughable.
I could tell there was a certain vexation that had overcome him, as though talking to me was some sort of obtuse chore and not a pleasant experience.
A good man may be in want, but then he quiets himself, and strives to make himself easy; but these people when they shall be hungry shall fret themselves, and when they have nothing to feed on their vexation shall prey upon their own spirits; for fretfulness is a sin that is its own punishment. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
No crosses, no vexations, but what we gave ourselves from the pamperedness, as I may call it, of our own wills. Clarissa Harlowe
All distress, annoyance, frustration, vexation and so on is a reaction to things perceived through the senses, usually of sight or hearing.
The Bishop spoke with apparent vexation, but his heart had bounded in the upspring of a great relief. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
It is better to sit down in a modest ignorance, and rest contented with the natural blessing of our own reasons, than by the uncertain knowledge of this life with sweat and vexation, which death gives every fool gratis, and is an accessary of our glorification. Religio Medici
Plague on it!" cried Telemachus, laying the bow aside with an air of vexation, "must I be called a poltroon all my life, or is it that I have not yet attained the full measure of my strength? Stories from the Odyssey
I would rather do that than attempt to define what vexation and oppression mean; they must vary with the circumstances of each case.
We, at least, shall not extend the vexation of this Spanish gentleman by quoting any part of this unfortunate _bevue_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
But now such as justly deserve the names of complacencies and joys are wholly refined from their contraries, and are immixed with neither vexation, remorse, nor repentance; and their good is congenial to the mind and truly mental and genuine, and not superinduced. Essays and Miscellanies
Their pleasures gave but a pinchbeck joviality after all, were but a thin lacker spread over mercenary cares and heart-aching jealousies -- not the jealousies of passion, but the nipping vulgar vexation with which a shopkeeper trembles lest a customer should go to his rival over the way. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
Spenser uses often ‘to welk’ (welken) in the sense of to fade, ‘to sty’ for to mount, ‘to hery’ as to glorify or praise, ‘to halse’ as to embrace, ‘teene’ as vexation or grief: Shakespeare ‘to tarre’ as to provoke, ‘to sperr’ as to enclose or bar in; ‘to sag’ for to droop, or hang the head downward. English Past and Present
Isaiah threw a pair of clean socks at my head in a paroxysm of vexation.
Tot mundi superstitiones quot coelo stellae, one saith, there be as many superstitions in the world, as there be stars in heaven, or devils themselves that are the first founders of them: with such ridiculous, absurd symptoms and signs, so many several rites, ceremonies, torments and vexations accompanying, as may well express and beseem the devil to be the author and maintainer of them. Anatomy of Melancholy
The French word _ennui_, which now only means weariness of mind, signified formerly injury, and the vexation or hatred caused thereby; something like the English word "annoy," as in Shakespeare's Richard III., v. 3: Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband
She was trying for a sultry pout, and achieving an expression of sullen vexation instead.
The man seemed to have grasped the essence of standing aloof from worldly anxieties and vexations.
But take heed withal, lest that whilst thou dust settle thy contentment in things present, thou grow in time so to overprize them, as that the want of them (whensoever it shall so fall out) should be a trouble and a vexation unto thee. Meditations
Vexations and a tempest of passion only fill his sail; as the good Luther writes, “When I am angry, I can pray well and preach well”: and, if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck. Representative Men
I have been so haunted by diabolical deceptions in this matter, that what do I know but that the devil may assume the form of this rustical juvenal, in order to procure me farther vexation? — The Monastery
Our labour is called the vexation of our heart (v. 22); it is to most a force upon themselves, so natural is it to us to love our ease. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Nay, a strong rëaction occurred in his ideas the moment he had seen his brother's writing; and when he fainted, he fainted from the struggle in his mind of manifold exciting causes, such as these: -- hatred, jealousy, what he called love, though a lower name befitted it, and vexation that his brother was -- not dead. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
Another vexation was the occasional arrival of false prophets in a community where every man was expected to have a current supply of religious experiences always ready for circulation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
Their doubt is, in part, determined; and yet their vexation is increased by another messenger, who brings them word that their prisoners are preaching in the temple (v. 25): "Behold, the men whom you put in prison, and have sent for to your bar, are now hard by you here, standing in the temple, under your nose and in defiance of you, teaching the people. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
In my opinion no recovery has been justified on the evidence with respect to mental distress, vexation, etc.
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She leaned forward and rubbed her temples, sighing in vexation.
It sort of simmers and bubbles and from time to time erupts into a lava-like spasm of vexation, pique and peevishness.
They may produce what they call idleness now, and a great deal of vexation and suffering. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
She delayed agreeing to his suggestions and changes and thereby caused considerable vexation both to Dickens and to his sub-editor.
Had not the wisest of men taught us this lesson, that all is vanity and vexation of spirit, yet our owne experience would soon have speld it out; for what do we obtain of all these things, but it is with labour and vexation? Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
Sir Hugh, surveying her with a look of surprise and vexation, exclaimed: 'What my dear! an't you dizened yet? why I thought to have seen you in all your best things!' Camilla
The power of righteous vexation is what keeps so many old Democrats hanging on in nursing homes long past the time they should have kicked off. October 2006
Oh blest deliverance — what a profane wretch is here, and what a lewd world we live in — oh London, London, how thou aboundest in Iniquity, thy Young men are debaucht, thy Virgins defloured, and thy Matrons all turn'd Bawds! my Lady Fancy, this is not company for you I take it, let us fly from this vexation of spirit on the never-failing wings of discretion. — Sir Patient Fancy
They throw themselves upon the ground, in vexation at their troubles, and there they lie at the head of all the streets, complaining to all that pass by (Lam.i. 12), pining away for want of necessary food; there they lie like a wild bull in a net, fretting and raging, struggling and pulling, to help themselves, but entangling themselves so much the more, and making their condition the worse by their own passions and discontents. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
This point is really a vexation of the mind and a frittering way of precious energy.
The vexation was a real one, but this is the language of a petulant invalid, of a man to whom the grasshopper has become a burden. Raleigh
Surely vexation slays the fool, And jealousy kills the simpleton.
His face showed his vexation at the delay.
Spenser uses often ‘to welk’ (welken) in the sense of to fade, ‘to sty’ for to mount, ‘to hery’ as to glorify or praise, ‘to halse’ as to embrace, ‘teene’ as vexation or grief: Shakespeare ‘to tarre’ as to provoke, ‘to sperr’ as to enclose or bar in; ‘to sag’ for to droop, or hang the head downward. English Past and Present
Even in the dark with only the starlight, I saw how his eyes blazed with vexation. WEB OF DREAMS
And such challenges may be used as an instrument of delay or vexation at every assize throughout the kingdom.
Still, there are egregious cases of blatant exploitation of the suffering of victims which apparently evoke no outrage, no vexation among the supporters of the war.
The technical difficulties encountered in the display of Net-based media are just part of the vexations that plague curators as they attempt to incorporate this work into a gallery setting.
The trees outside the window rustled as if they were laughing at his vexation and confusion.
She was crying with vexation and shock.
A look of vexation crossed Lily's face then, and for a moment D.J. was afraid he'd said something wrong.
After all, the aloe was an ugly thing; but it answered my purpose – it made Mrs Luttridge, as I am credibly informed, absolutely weep with vexation. Belinda
For a time she bustled round him, with all her vexation gone, saying nothing of his sederunt with her brothers. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
Now, vexation at having missed the festivities made her sharp tongued. JUST BETWEEN US
He preferred the vanity and vexation to the silence and unmovableness of the grave.
Twelfth day the fiddler lays his head in the lap of some one of the wenches, and the _mainstyr fiddler_ asks who such a maid, or such a maid, naming all the girls one after another, shall marry, to which he answers according to his own whim, or agreeable to the intimacies he has taken notice of during the time of merriment, and whatever he says is absolutely depended upon as an oracle; and if he couple two people who have an aversion to each other, tears and vexation succeed the mirth; this they call "cutting off the fiddler's head," for after this he is dead for a whole year. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
[1] Believe me, dear Mother that the inexpressable pleasure I feel in composing these tales and Ballads; and the honest pride of haveing proved; (against the imperious and unnatural opinions of some of the learned,) that a poor man may possess qualities which they are forced to admire, will allways be equal to any temporary vexations which are likely to fall to my lot. Letter 66
To understand my vexation with this, let me share my schedule from this past week with you: five engineering midterms, five days.
Never, that is, apart from Bronwen's rare, justified vexation over Gerallt. TESTIMONIES
She had admired and esteemed Mr. Faulkland prodigiously; her vexation was the greater, in finding her expectations disappointed; and could I have been so unjust to the pretensions of another, or so indelicate in regard to myself, as to have overlooked Mr. Faulkland's fault, I knew my mother would be inflexible. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
The lens in this collection is focused very carefully upon the quotidian, with all of its utterly familiar vexations.
Speaking about Rove's latest vexation of conservative momentum, a critical comment he made recently about Sarah Palin's lack of presidential "gravitas," conservative radio show host Mark Levin assailed the former Bush brain, calling him "yesterday's operative" who had a problem keeping his mouth shut. Karl Rove Bashed By Conservative As 'Our Joe Biden'
That's the trouble with this profession," he added in tones of mild vexation. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
After the old couple got over their initial surprise, vexation followed.
I have been so haunted by diabolical deceptions in this matter, that what do I know but that the devil may assume the form of this rustical juvenal, in order to procure me farther vexation? — The Monastery
After a thousand scenes of pillage, of vexation, and attacks by armed forces, their caravan arrived, in October, at the vast oasis of Asben. Five Weeks in a Balloon
You sense the writing itself begin to twitch with vexation at being unable to realise the inner life of the Hispanic tobacco-leaf rollers.
She takes hold of my hand, and having rolled up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I missed the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
It will doubtless be looked upon as heresy for a children's librarian to own that she has a deal of sympathy for the down-trodden adult of the present; that there have been moments when she has even gone so far as to say an "amen" -- under her breath -- to the librarian who, after a day of vexations at the hands of the exasperating young person represented in our current social writings as a much-sinned-against innocent, wrathfully exploded, "Children ought to be put in a barrel and fed through the bung till they are twenty-one years old! Library Work with Children
It was my well-won reward after the trials on the road and the vexations by which for several years various officials had endeavoured to prevent my wanderings in Tibet.
My whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
Isly bit her lip in vexation as tears poured down her cheeks.
The man seemed to have grasped the essence of standing aloof from worldly anxieties and vexations.
Doctor are also baulked of their revenge, just as they are getting over the preliminary pains and vexations; and, while pluming themselves with anticipated honours, are suddenly deplumed into Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
I find I am much less argumentative with people in person when I have the opportunity to work through vexations in the peculiarly public way blogging allows.
The vexation he showed at having caused {p. 066} such a disappointment, struck me as amiably characteristic -- and in the course of the evening he every now and then threw out some word of admiration to reconsole _mamma_. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
Teach me likewise to number the days of this world's greatness, of which I have so great a share; and teach me to look upon them as vanity and vexation of spirit. "] [Footnote 70:" Je vis Milord Rochester comme il sortoit de conseil fort chagrin; et, sur la fin du souper, il lui en echappe quelque chose. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
Now, vexation at having missed the festivities made her sharp tongued. JUST BETWEEN US
Lying and unfaithfull; w'd doe things on purpose in contradiction and vexation to her mistress; lye out of the house anights and have contrivances w'th fellows that have been stealing from o'r estate and gett drink out of ye cellar for them; saucy and impudent, as when we have taken her to task for her wickedness she has gone away to complain of cruell usage. Customs and Fashions in Old New England
And surprised out of her vexation she ran back again exclaiming, "Look, look! as surely as Gillian is finding her appetite I think she is losing her grief. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
But minor vexations are not the same as an assault on fundamental liberties.
We can no longer afford to dismiss the vexations of terror now that they have invaded our own spiritual and intellectual terrain.
It is easy to dismiss racial profiling and other examples of prejudice as minor vexations when the nation faces deadly attacks on its citizens both here and abroad.
Miss Mary, she would be daffing with him on his return, with a 'How's her leddyship to-day, Dugald?' and he would be in a pleasant vexation at this guessing of what he thought his secret. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
Here the delusion of judicial immortality takes its most pathetic form, blind to vanity and vexation of spirit.
Delany applies a pleasing veneer of composure to Ann's vexation, and Allin is persuasive as an inwardly turned man inclined to defend against the intrusions of strangers and loved ones alike. 'At Home at the Zoo' expands Albee's classic one-act play
Dickens's reaction to these piracies varied from amused contempt to downright vexation.
This may be a trial that every sportsman must undergo, but the focus on the player also arises from a manager's vexation with his own malfunctioning plans.
Tedium and vexation accompany us as we wait with impatience to make a way out of our homelessness in a hobbling, heartless world into a shelter prepared for us from the foundation of the earth.
He would promptly quit in vexation (crayons flying through the air like so much shrapnel) and would take incredible cajoling and persuasion to try again.
The usual consequences followed -- he could not earn money so fast as she could spend it; the house became a scene of discord; the daughter dressed in the fashion; learned to play on the piano; was taught to think that being engaged in any useful employment was very ungenteel; and that to be _engaged to be married_ was the chief end and aim of woman; the father died a bankrupt; the weak and frivolous mother lingered along in beggary, for a while, and then died of vexation and shame. The American Frugal Housewife
(Compare Pr 22: 2). deceitful man -- literally, "man of vexations," an exactor. the Lord ... their eyes -- sustains their lives (1Sa 14: 27; Ps 13: 3); that is, both depend on Him, and He will do justice. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
She takes hold of my hand, and having rolled up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly, towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I missed the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so fiat, or so hollow, in the vexation Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
It sort of simmers and bubbles and from time to time erupts into a lava-like spasm of vexation, pique and peevishness.
I began to notice it about 10 years ago, in my early middle age, when the larger vexations of adulthood - don't get me started - were becoming real to me for the first time.
While I wish them all luck I cannot say I have much patience for their vexation.
Then shall they cry for sorrow of heart, and howl for vexation of spirit, perhaps in this world, when their laughter shall be turned into mourning and their joy into heaviness, and certainly in that world where the torment will be endless, easeless, and remediless -- nothing but weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, to eternity. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
‘Blame it on me, why don't you,’ I muttered in vexation.
He's gone back to staring at me, this time with far more vexation and hostility.
She takes hold of my hand, and having roll’d up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I miss’d the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
And surprised out of her vexation she ran back again exclaiming, 'Look, look! as surely as Gillian is finding her appetite I think she is losing her grief.' Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
He seems to speak with vexation at the hook in his nose and the bridle in his jaws, such as Sennacherib was tied up with, Isa. xxxvii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
But it was in the decisions they made to cause vexation that slaves most forcefully expressed their humanity, and their opposition to the institution that oppressed them.
To Meryl's vexation, the boundary wall proved to be nearly eight feet high.
His face showed his vexation at the delay.
I say, mother would be mad if she knew you'd come into this scrow!" he said with vexation, kicking aside some sporting papers that were littered over the floors, and bringing forward a carved oak chair with a cushion to place it before the fire for her acceptance. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I
By implication, the realist who meets force with force without vexation or anxiety is the one who fails to experience the sublime.
His vexation was the greater, that, if his conjecture were correct, it would place him in a difficult position towards the Belmonts. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76
He had freaks also to divert the vexations of his misgiving thoughts, calling on by the beat of drum his footguards, like a kennel of hounds to snatch away the scraps and reliques of his table. Royalty Restored
To her extreme vexation, she was once put on the national curriculum for 12 to 15-year-olds.
In an unappealingly self-pitying letter to Mollie two days later, Twain described the drunken sequence of the article, adding that he had suffered, “nothing but trouble & vexation” ever since. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
You're involved in an academic setting which, I'm sure has its vexations, but it beats the factory.
From thenceforth no vexation, care, or grief shall take such deep impression in my heart, how hugely great or vehement soever it otherwise appear, but that it shall evanish forthwith at the sight of that my future babe, and at the hearing of the chat and prating of its childish gibberish. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
It has been suggested that “Benin” or “Bini” derive from the Yoruba phrase Ile-ibinu land of vexation which was purportedly uttered by Prince Oronmiyan declaring the fundamental fact that “only an Edo prince can rule over Edo land.” Gender Sensitivity Among Nigerian Ethnic Group « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
The cumulative effect is not a developing argument but a gut sense of Sebald's inconsolable vexation.
But it is hard to deny that the noise of departure by persons who may have had too much liquor constitutes a vexation to those living nearby.
My vexation was completed by the thought that the diary contained many episodes and incidents which I can now only recall hazily, but I thanked my lucky stars that I had taken the precaution to keep a précis of the contents which I myself brought away with me, and which has proved of valuable assistance in setting forth this narrative. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben
All distress, annoyance, frustration, vexation and so on is a reaction to things perceived through the senses, usually of sight or hearing.
The man seemed to have grasped the essence of standing aloof from worldly anxieties and vexations.
A rope was turpentined, and touched with burning match, but the flame spread up and down the whole spiral length of the rope torch, to the infinite vexation of the lighter. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
In this regard, Professor Albert Abel, of the University of Toronto Law School, and a distinguished authority on public administration, wrote four years ago that as for individuals, "the harm (of disclosure) may be economic, as where preliminary investigations into the management of a company or the wholesomeness of a product are under way; in such cases, even an ultimate clean bill of health would probably not save the enterprise from grave loss and the authorities quite properly do not want to reveal such matters past or present ... the individual's interest in being free from shame and vexation is not to be sacrificed to a mere general right to know. The Right to Know

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