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Example sentences for "galled"

Lexicographically close words:
gallantries; gallantry; gallants; gallate; galleasses; galleon; galleons; gallerie; galleried; galleries
  1. For the dyeing of raw silk black, it is galled in the cold, with the bath of galls which has already served for the black of boiled silk.

  2. To give it this weight, the silk is galled without being ungummed; and, on coming out of the galls, it is rendered supple by being worked on the jack and pin.

  3. One thing that rather galled the feelings of undergraduates was that none but Provost and Fellows might set foot on the extensive lawns at King’s--a selfish privilege of the few, as it appeared, maintained to the exclusion of the many.

  4. In his eyes all women should be, like Caesar's wife, above suspicion, and it hurt and galled him that even a shadow of aspersion should rest on Patricia's fair fame.

  5. The right broke in upon the enemy, sword in hand, and did great execution, but were likewise soon flanked and very much galled by the grape-shot.

  6. The Highlanders were much galled by the enemy's canon and were turned so impatient that they [Sidenote: fol.

  7. It galled him that they had suffered for their trust in him, and that they had repented their trust.

  8. One single class of people feels galled and restless, and that unfortunately neither is, nor can be, numerous in this country.

  9. I perceived that I had been irresistibly drawn back by the holiest ties of affection, to stretch out my hands to the manacles, and bow my neck to that yoke, which had formerly galled my very soul.

  10. It was a symptom that alarmed my selfishness--it galled me with the sense that I was no longer my own despot.

  11. But there was society here, and I was swept into it--there was chatter, and it galled me.

  12. I was sensible of still wearing the fetters of the flesh, yet they galled no longer; the burden was lifted from my heart, it beat happily and calmly, as in childhood.

  13. The former were applied to especially from their skill in sieges, and their very science galled perhaps the pride of the martial Spartans.

  14. But once at a banquet he was charged with being a supposititious child; the insult galled him, and he went to Delphi to consult the oracle.

  15. It galled him, even in his pride, to see those clear, candid eyes measuring, half unconsciously and half incredulously, the narrow limits of his nature.

  16. Would it come to her to regret the quietness of life which she was laying by for ever as a garment that had galled and fretted her?

  17. The strap galled him, and the wretched Count moaned at his fate.

  18. The news that Count Conrad has escaped hath galled him much; it came at a bad moment too, following on those parchments twice found within the grounds"--he paused.

  19. Thirlwell was vaguely conscious that his hand had galled and bled, but this did not matter.

  20. I scrambled back a yard or two and looked down into the dark gap--I could not run because of my galled foot.

  21. Thirlwell's back ached and the straps had galled his shoulders, but he noted with some surprise that Agatha did not look tired.

  22. In the meantime Alton was riding almost as fast, though the saddle galled him and he was stiff and aching.

  23. That she had no faith in him, and cared nothing for his downfall, seemed evident, while the thought that she had gone over to De Vere and joined with him in his utterances galled our hero sorely.

  24. This galled him severely, especially as she had refused to see him when he called.

  25. It galled him that she should assume an immediate share in deciding upon his fate.

  26. At first perhaps the necessity galled him a little, but it is now as easily borne, nay, is as irrepressible a habit as the outpouring of inconsiderate talk.

  27. She said her shoulders were all galled under her collar.

  28. Grenville spoke for two hours and forty minutes; much of it well, but too long, too many repetitions, and too evident marks of being galled by reports, which he answered with more art than sincerity.

  29. These persons are of a morbid sensitiveness, which is perpetually galled by collision with others.

  30. The depths of my evil passion were again sounded and aroused, and I resolved yet to humble the pride and conquer the coldness which galled to the very quick the morbid acuteness of my self-love.

  31. How sore I galled him, only heav'n could know, And he that felt, and I that caused the woe.

  32. There was a remorseless triumph going on about him, and it galled and stung him in his pride and jealousy, whatever form it took: though most of all when it divided with him the love and memory of his lost boy.

  33. Then our forces were routed, galled with their arrows, which resemble thunderbolts.


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    Other words:
    aggravated; angry; annoyed; bothered; burning; disturbed; exasperated; festering; fiery; galled; inflamed; irked; irritated; miffed; nettled; peeved; piqued; provoked; raw; resentful; riled; roiled; sensitive; sore; tender; tingling; troubled; vexed