try one's patience vs vex

try one's patience

verb
  • To be difficult to deal with; annoy. 

vex

verb
  • To annoy, irritate. 

  • To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet. 

  • To twist, to weave. 

  • To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. 

How often have the words try one's patience and vex occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )