The Khalifa's entire army, incensed by the bombardment and by the galling fire which our dismounted troopers took every opportunity of pouring into them, were now moving forward to attack and annihilate the infidels.
To remain where they were meant being under a galling fire from the cliffs, and with very little natural protection from the surrounding ground.
The Hammerer, badly pounded, was replying fiercely and resolutely to the galling fire.
However galling the patriot captain's observations were to the young nobleman, the latter could not help being struck by their justice.
A hint from him would enable Kenwardine to escape, and it was galling to feel that it must not be given.
You see, it's galling to listen to plans you can't take part in.
While this conflict was going on, the main body of the enemy embarked, amid a galling fire from Lamb's artillery.
But a flanking party of Indians, which covered that wing of the enemy, and was concealed under some bushes upon the ancient river bank, kept up a galling fire.
The French kept up a galling fire, till the gathering tempest burst with great fury upon the belligerents.
The pursued kept up a galling fire with small-arms while on their retreat, and slew many of the enemy.
The Confederate Commander, divining his intention, poured a galling fire into his ranks and began a race with him for the heights.
No army could have stood before the galling fire of those massed batteries.
Suddenly on the left flank of the Federal army a galling fire was poured from a grey brigade.
It was bondage, but not as gallingin the fact as she would have expected if it had been predicted to her a few months previously.
Why does Abraham Lincoln persist in striving to compel this brave people, by force of arms, to pass again under the galling yoke of his hostile government?
This state of affairs was galling to American pride, and, as the vessel could not be rescued, it was determined to make an effort to destroy her.
I have seen you gleeking and galling at this gentleman twice or thrice.
Now and again he can shake it off, and write with something of his old buoyancy of spirits; then the burden returns, heavy with a weight of listless indifference, or with a galling load of pain.
The natives justly feared the growing power of the Carthaginians, and the latter feeling their own strength, wanted to throw off the yoke of tribute, which they looked upon as dishonourable and even galling to a free people.
Thus the people, before the creation of this magistracy, were amused with the name of liberty, whilst in fact they had only changed the tyranny of one, for the more galling yoke of three hundred.
I can imagine nothing more galling than these restraints.
The galling yoke had become painful--most of the colonies approved the plan.
The grand Rubicon had been passed--the galling chains had been thrown off--the Sodom of British power was doomed and nothing could induce the sages and heroes of '76 to look back or tarry on the plain of monarchy.
Proud, envious, spiteful, she seems to hate all the world, but no one with such concealed malice andgalling bitterness as Guy Kenmore's wife.
If it did, it would only be at the expense of a newspaper notoriety that would be galling to our pride and a death-blow to sensitiveness.
There was something galling in this secret visit, but he forbore to say so to his little wife, she looked so joyous and happy; not one word of annoyance that her cousin had so long deferred it, not a harsh thought for even her aunt.
It was very galling to have to wait so long, his fingers itched to touch her dollars, but he was wise enough to see that he would gain nothing by precipitancy.
Yet thirty years ago--aye, twenty years ago--the people endured sound doctrine even when it was galling to the flesh.
To have her an outcast on his account, to have her leading the life of an abandoned woman, and that with the moregalling belief that he had forsaken her, was more than he could bear, and he was sinking under the burden.
He had learned that novelty, force and beauty were the keynotes and he had to work these elements out under the most galling fire so often that he knew how it ought to be done.
This marriage business was a galling yoke, cutting off all rational opportunity for enjoyment, and he was now after a brief period of freedom having that yoke heavily adjusted to his neck again.
Their only hope of being freed from their present galling condition was by a large influx of Protestant settlers, when the scales might be again turned in their favour.
