heartburn

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Loeb's senior partner, Felix Warburg, presiding at a meeting at which the firm decides without any heartburnings to give up its banking business.

From Time Magazine Archive

He deplored "sectional jealousies and heartburnings," entreating the competing factions of his day to "remember that they are members of the same political family, having a common destiny."

From Time Magazine Archive

They have no jealousies about going here or there; no heartburnings that such a one's lace is Brussels point, and much finer than their own.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James

I drink to our better friendship, hoping that a little horse-flesh may leave no heartburnings atween us.

From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore

You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.

From From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)