personal vexation

Calculating, however, with nice acumen, the irritable selfishness of sick people, he trusted not to the personal vexation which he really felt to give his air and countenance the appearance of grief and sympathy; but as he walked slowly up the stairs, he thought over every point of the part he was to play, in order to cover his individual motives from the eye of the wounded man, and make him believe that sincere interest in his fate and sufferings was the sole emotion which affected his friend and benefactor.

They decided to support Greeley, because they had honestly led their readers to an honest belief that the Cincinnati movement was for the best interests of the Republic; and they deemed it unfair to turn against it on account of personal vexation against a man whose candidacy had been tolerated through the whole proceedings.

The pair are currently engaged in another of their recurring spats — periodic episodes of policy disagreement and personal vexation that typically end in embraces of reconciliation — and the realization there aren't any other partners out there proposing a better match.

Well aware that the intensity of Sir Alex Ferguson's feelings towards him wax and wane as the threat from Anfield intensifies or recedes, Liverpool's manager will be privately wounded by his Manchester United counterpart's current lack of personal vexation.

For despite her personal vexation with Eunice she was loyal to her, and felt that she had but to say "Bosh!" in her most emphatic way to any rumor repeated in order to dispose of it.