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Like Victoria, Singapore is a free port, and the vexatiousness of a custom-house is unknown.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

After that we used the baynit, and they didn't give us no more vexatiousness.

From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian

You make the bargain knowing of the flaw; 'Twere mere vexatiousness to take the law.

From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John

Salvina herself, with her morbid conscientiousness and desire to excel, underwent nightmares from the vexatiousness of learning how to cut holes so that they could not possibly be darned, and then darning them.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel