How To Use Galled In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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He put his galled shoulder to the haul-rope and took the river-trail south.
FINIS
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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
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But these reproaches would leave my withers quite ungalled.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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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
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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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Jeanie herself could not fail to bestow an anxious thought on the awkwardness of the approaching meeting; but her conscience was ungalled — and then she was cumbered with many household cares of an unusual nature, which, joined to the anxious wish once more to see Butler, after an absence of unusual length, made her extremely desirous that the travellers should arrive as soon as possible.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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It is an old saying, [2161] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword: and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-play or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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His flesh was galled by many days of contact with the haul-rope.
FINIS
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A galled horse will not endure the comb.
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His heel galled by an ill - fitting shoe.
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It galled him to have to ask for a loan.
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These shadows say to us by contrast that happiness lies in a life true, active, spontaneous, ungalled by the yoke of the passions, of unnatural needs, of unhealthy stimulus; keeping intact the physical faculty of enjoying the light of day and the air we breathe, and in the heart, the capacity to thrill with the love of all that is generous, simple and fine.
The Simple Life
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Belief in a thousand hells and heavens will not lift the apathetic out of apathy or hold back the passionate from passion; while a newly planted and ungalled community, in blessed forgetfulness of rewards or punishments, of cosmic needs or celestial sanctions, will know how to live cheerily and virtuously for life's own sake, putting to shame those thin vaticinations.
The Life of Reason
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A galled horse will not endure the comb.
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It galled him to do this, but he put on his best courtly air and bowed to his queen.
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I know they do not mean to be unkind but it kind of galled me.
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So he stooped and put the gyve in his bosom; and the rough iron galled him as he went, and his bosom bled.
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In the Centurion there were in all, of men and boyes, fourtie and eight, who together fought most valiantly, and so galled the enemie, that many a braue and lustie Spaniard lost his life in that place.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Eighty-five-year-old pensioner Lex Morris took exception to his treatment by an electricity line maintenance serviceman, but is galled to find there is no way to stop him entering his Glanmire Road property.
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Such in all times has been the rise and decline of fashion; and the absurd mimicry of the _citizens_, even of the lowest classes, to their very ruin, in straining to rival the _newest fashion_, has mortified and galled the courtier.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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As much as the idea galled him, he'd have to put aside his own agenda until things returned to normal after the invasion -- if they did -- and cooperate to the best of his ability.
The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel
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Dutt actually looks plausible as the weather-beaten old literary lion, galled by his own unfashionability.
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He said he pursued information about the pornography matter because it "galled me to no end" that SEC employees were spending "hours and hours over weeks and weeks" viewing porn while collecting government pay.
SEC porn sting netted workers in 7 cities
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But I'm most galled by the inaccuracy of how the study's results are misleadingly characterized.
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It galled him that soldiers had driven so hard to penetrate the city, only to have a buffoon in a beret belittle them to the world.
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All ungalled of him is each courtier's heel or great man's kibe.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
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It kind of galled him, but it would work; Maury knew it would.
Shiver
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It galled him to ask permission.
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He went about his work, unheedful of the jests, ungalled by his irons, unmindful of the groans and laughter about him.
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Troke, ungalled by his irons, unmindful of the groans and laughter about him.
For the term of his natural life
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That man's bad manners galled the young lady.
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But Senator Clinton was "galled" that Mrs Palin might try to capitalise on the impact she made among women voters during the Democratic primaries,
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Also, to one side, limped a score or more of foot-sore, yoke-galled, skeleton oxen, that ever paused to nip at the occasional tufts of withered grass, and that ever were prodded on by the tired-faced youths who herded them.
Chapter 12
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For Miss Mayfield, deprecating slaughter in the abstract, accepted its results gratefully, like the rest of her sex, and while willing to "let the hart ungalled play," nevertheless was able to console herself with its venison.
Jeff Briggs's Love Story
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The hair is galled off from the thigh.
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This thing being put in execution (according to his commandement) the Britains were not a little astonied at the strange sight of those gallies, for that they were driuen with ores, which earst they had not séene, and shrewdlie were they galled also with the artillerie which the Romans discharged vpon them, so that they began to shrinke and
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8)
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So making a little longer step than I should otherwise have done I "galled his kibe.
The Private Life of Henry Maitland
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All ungalled of him is each courtier's heel or great man's kibe.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
