Vexations Sentence Examples

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  • You pursue me all over Europe with the little vexations that I came away to avoid.

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  • Hitherto Judah and Israel labored under great vexations, but henceforward Asa King of Judah had peace ten years.

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  • Comte made her an annual allowance, and for some years after the separation they corresponded on friendly terms. Next in the list of the vexations was a lawsuit with his publisher.

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  • Countess Mary was jealous of this passion of her husband's and regretted that she could not share it; but she could not understand the joys and vexations he derived from that world, to her so remote and alien.

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  • The vexations and extortions to which the Company's early agents were subjected more than once almost induced them to abandon the trade, and in 1677-1678 they threatened to withdraw from Bengal altogether.

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