piqued

“Pride,” observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, “is a very common failing, I believe.

He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the attempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods.

Sometimes Albert would affect to make a joke of his want of success; but internally he was deeply wounded, and his self-love immensely piqued, to think that Albert de Morcerf, the most admired and most sought after of any young person of his day, should thus be passed over, and merely have his labor for his pains.

Danglars was a coward, but did not wish to appear so; he was piqued at the tone which Morcerf had just assumed.