There are, in short, various classes of persons with whom we are day by day tempted to have no more to do whatever; we are exasperated by the discomfort they occasion us; the anxiety and vexation and expenditure of time, feeling, and labour constantly renewed so long as we are in connection with them.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
That difficulty in one form or another was their constant vexation.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
One day I went over into- Armsby could not remember names, and he snapped his fingers now in vexation.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe