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Example sentences for "gall"

Lexicographically close words:
galena; galeon; galeons; gales; galiot; gallant; gallantest; gallantly; gallantries; gallantry
  1. I shall wash the wounds of my adversaries with venom of the finest vintage, and gall of the first quality.

  2. Hence, when you speak to her of your wife, your domestic happiness, take care not to gall that noble and tender heart.

  3. These latter facts apparently prove that the nature of the poison is a more powerful agent in determining the form of the gall than the specific character of the tree which is acted on.

  4. My successes were as gall and wormwood to him, for he quite saw that all this store of Latin was dead against him, and that it would convert me into a pillar of the Church which he disliked.

  5. We exchanged with regard to Sallust and Livy, impressions which must have resembled those of the disciples of St. Gall or St. Colomb when they were learning Latin.

  6. In revenge, I did considerable havoc amongst the spur-fowl, who proved equally good for sport and the pot, besides knocking over a number of old crows, whose gall the Arab soldiers wanted for collyrium.

  7. The more civilised make up of canvass or "gunny bags" stuffed with hay and provided with cross bars, a rude packsaddle, which is admirably calculated to gall the animal's back.

  8. To Set Colors in Washable Goods:--Soak them previous to washing in a water in which is allowed a tablespoonful of ox-gall to a gallon of water.

  9. Spots may be renovated by the use of ox-gall or ammonia and water.

  10. Carpets should be thoroughly beaten on the wrong side first and then on the right side, after which spots may be removed by the use of ox-gall or ammonia and water.

  11. Scouring Soap for Cotton and Silk Goods:--Mix one pound of common soap, half a pound of beef-gall and one ounce and a half of Venetian turpentine.

  12. Salt or beef's gall in the water helps to set black.

  13. He became just as widely known in connection with surgical work for the treatment of gall stones and kidney diseases.

  14. I ne'er in gall dipp'd my envenom'd pen, Nor branded the bold front of shameless men.

  15. I suppose this Gentleman having frequently heard of Gall dropping from a Pen, and being lashed in a Satyr, he was resolved to have them both at any Rate, and so uttered this compleat Piece of Nonsense.

  16. It sickens me and makes my gall rise to think of these things, Herr Kreisphysikus.

  17. On the day of his greatest glory they poured gall into his soul, filled his heart with bitterness.

  18. But when I think of it even now, my gall rises.

  19. Take the Gall of an Ox and of a Pike, mixed well together in fair Water, and rub the gold or silver with this composition.

  20. This edition seems to have been repeated at St. Gall in 1693; and these two, which were the last, appear to have been the best.

  21. When the goddess was invoked under this name the gall of the victim was taken out and thrown behind the altar, signifying that there should be no gall (bitterness) or anger between married people.

  22. The Blastophaga hatches out from a tiny egg which her mother lays in a special flower or gall in the flower cavity of a wild, inedible Caprifig that came originally from the islands off the Syrian coast.

  23. The larger, juicier Smyrna fig attracts her, and she crawls inside, searching for gall flowers there.

  24. Flourens, on the contrary, is never tired of extolling this as a great truth and Gall as its discoverer; for example, p.

  25. Gall relates that in his time a mother killed her child and roasted it in order to cure her husband's rheumatism with its fat.

  26. My gall thereat arises: Northward it hath this sense alone That you, your conscience blinding, 110 Shall bow your fool's nose to the stone, When slavery feels like grinding.

  27. Early on the following morning I proceeded on my journey, but fearing to gall the horse, I no longer rode him, but led him by the bridle, until I came to a town at the distance of about ten miles from the place where I had passed the night.

  28. Viking in his hauberk (Gall ina luirig) is mentioned as one of three that are hardest to talk to; and, in Sec.

  29. Ebony was imitated with a tincture of gall apples, green was obtained with verdigris, and red with cochineal.

  30. In another pot put blue Brazil and 3 measures of bruised gall apples in strong lime lye, and let it stand for the same time.

  31. Lastly, ox-gall is dissolved in this mixture, and the whole is three times worked over.

  32. But now everywhere the royal authority was weakened; and while Edward was feasting at Shene and Warwick absent at Calais, the provinces were exposed to all the abuses which most gall a population.

  33. However generous might be the true spirit of these words, it was impossible that they should not gall and humiliate the young and flattered beauty to whom they were addressed.

  34. Mr Gall here again expressed not only his satisfaction, but his astonishment, at the success with which Mr Cameron had taught the Scriptures to these children.

  35. Mr Gall here took advantage of a short pause, and said, 'We shall now change the announcement.

  36. Two gentlemen,[21] officially and intimately connected with the Kildare Place Society of Dublin, being accidentally present, were at their own desire introduced to Mr Gall by a clerical friend after the close of the exercises.

  37. Mr Gall then said, Let us change the announcement: 'Joseph and Mary went regularly every year to the feast of the passover?

  38. The clergymen present accordingly requested Mr Gall to try the concluding portion of the second chapter of Luke, which details Christ's visit to Jerusalem at twelve years of age.

  39. Mr Gall accordingly repeated the announcement again, and called on them to proceed with any other lessons from it which occurred to them.

  40. For this purpose, Mr Gall asked, 'Could you tell me any circumstances which may happen, in which you may be called on to remember that Joseph and Mary attended public worship?

  41. Mr Gall here requested the children to pause for a moment, that he might express the high gratification he felt at the fluency, the readiness, and the appropriateness of the lessons which they had drawn.

  42. Mr Gall gave us the announcement that 'Joseph and Mary worshipped God in public,' and asked for one or two lessons from this?

  43. Mr Gall then produced a little narrative tract, which he read aloud to the children; and after the statement of each moral circumstance detailed in it, he asked the children whether it was right or wrong.

  44. In visiting the schools next day, the propriety of preparing a class or two of children for the public meeting was suggested and approved of; and the day-teacher being applied to, gave Mr Gall a list of six of his boys for the purpose.

  45. And the crupper-gall of this other mule, is it now well, boy?

  46. Is the girth-gall of this mule well yet, boy?

  47. And this other mule, is its backband-gall well yet?


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gall" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    gallant defence; gallant forecastle; gallant gentleman; gallant knight; gallant mast; gallant sails; gallant soldier; gallic acid; gallinaceous birds; galling fire