galled

[ UK /ɡˈɔːld/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. painful from having the skin abraded
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How To Use galled In A Sentence

  • Given the phrasing, it's difficult not to suspect that he was galled to discover that he was no more popular than a writer who, at that stage in her career, had published only a small volume of poems and a children's book.
  • His shoulders and chest, galled by the pack-straps, made him think, and for the first time with understanding, of the horses he had seen on city streets. THE TASTE OF THE MEAT
  • There is certainly but one place in all New York where the stricken deer may weep -- or even, for that matter, the hart ungalled play; the wonder of my coincidence shrank a little, that is, before the fact that when young ardor or young despair wishes to commune with immensity it can ONLY do so either in a hall bedroom or in just this corner, practically, where The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
  • I read today that Hillary is "galled" and "insulted" that Palin is comparing herself to her. "Palin is now where she is ... not because she has fought her way to the top of the national greasy pole."
  • A third perceived he had a windgall, and would bid no money; a fourth knew by his eye that he had the botts; a fifth wondered what a plague I could do at the fair with a blind, spavined, galled hack, that was only fit to be cut up for a dog-kennel. The Vicar of Wakefield
  • He put his galled shoulder to the haul-rope and took the river-trail south. FINIS
  • It has the secret of that honest simplicity which belongs to unspoiled youth, that keen integrity native to the ungalled spirit as yet unconscious of any duplicity in itself or of any inward reason why it should fail. The Life of Reason
  • But these reproaches would leave my withers quite ungalled. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
  • President Swain was so galled that he made an elaborate reply to what he called misconception and misrepresentations. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
  • Hart, like a youthful, 302. panteth after water brooks, 820. ungalled play, 138. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
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