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  • Fache was in utter incomprehension of this woman's gall.†   (source)
  • If anyone had the gall to ask why the door had been locked, Jackson would respond that it hadn't been locked; the students had simply been unable to open it.†   (source)
  • A few people laugh nervously, but most turn their heads to see if Skeeter has had the gall to show up.†   (source)
  • At the end, our leaders, Sarah Hill and Troy and Maila Gall, lead us in a short Bible study, usually about what Jesus said or did.†   (source)
  • He even has the gall to smile at me.†   (source)
  • They're supposed to be you blithering idiot!" shouted McGona-gall.†   (source)
  • The ink is made by mixing eight ounces of gum arabic, five and a half ounces of gall, four ounces of iron sulfate, two and a half ounces of logwood, and half an ounce of copper sulfate.†   (source)
  • Now that is gall.†   (source)
  • "After everything that I've done for you," continued Adri, "everything we've sacrificed, you have the gall to steal from me."†   (source)
  • They were getting destroyed, they had hardly inflicted any casualties, and they had the gall to perform the victory ritual and end the game right under their noses.†   (source)
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  • A lavatory sponge plunged into vinegar and gall and thrust into His poor mouth, a mouth that moves rarely except to pray, to pray even for you, boys, even for you who nailed Him to that cross.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later Makalu Gall appeared, having been dragged down the glacier on a piece of plastic by a half-dozen Sherpas.†   (source)
  • Near its crown it bulged with the distinctive onion-shaped dome of its accumulator gall.†   (source)
  • Her heavy knives of defense against misery, regret, gall and hurt, she placed one by one on a bank where dear water rushed on below.†   (source)
  • Will laughed, which I thought took a great deal of gall.†   (source)
  • He bought new furniture, a new TV, and he had the gall to throw away the old black & white box we had in Watts.†   (source)
  • You have some gall calling me lazy for someone who lies in bed all day.†   (source)
  • The doctor called by Helena Lewicka diagnosed acute inflammation of the gall bladder and recommended a strict diet.†   (source)
  • But then I remembered that there was no ox gall in the house, for setting the dyes in the wash, and I would need some to do the dark colours; for the things I had done that morning had all been white.†   (source)
  • He felt the thought gall him, but could not deny the wisdom in what they did.†   (source)
  • And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him.†   (source)
  • But urine and gall are material.†   (source)
  • Paco has the gall to pat me on the shoulder.†   (source)
  • Things like "how dare you," "appalling nerve," and "unspeakable gall.†   (source)
  • Or will I slip into endless darkness, unbroken and quiet' Uneasiness latches onto mc, like it's been waiting around a corner all this time and only now has the gall to emerge.†   (source)
  • He has a healthy and honest attitude about his chicanery, and I'm all for him, just as I'm for the dear old capitalistic system of free individual enterprise, comrades, for him and his downright bullheaded gall and the American flag, bless it, and the Lincoln Memorial and the whole bit.†   (source)
  • A gall-bladder attack or a liver abscess could cause fever and jaundice and abdominal pain—the red eyes she could not explain—and she ordered an ultrasound examination of his liver.†   (source)
  • The sight of a large group of Latino men taking over a public space as if it were their own—to play a foreign-seeming game, no less—seemed to gall those Americans who were growing fed up with immigration, legal or otherwise.†   (source)
  • Lord have mercy, ain't this the living gall!†   (source)
  • But Fernanda felt so moved that she thought she would go mad when Meme awoke at midnight with her head splitting with pain and drowning in vomited gall.†   (source)
  • That would gall me.†   (source)
  • Would that I could thank you for the same, said Glaedr, his words as bitter as an oak gall.†   (source)
  • They got their damn gall, taking us to jail.†   (source)
  • The planks weren't perfect—upon closer examination, the dings and dents were apparent—but every time Kelley saw the mahogany planks, she could almost hear Adam sighing loudly, followed by, "Gall darnit!†   (source)
  • "It's him that will come as the Antichrist, to lead men into the flaming bowels of perdition, to the bloody end of wickedness, as Star Wormwood hangs blazing in the sky, as gall gnaws at the vitals of the children, as women's wombs give forth monstrosities, as the works of men's hands turn to blood-"†   (source)
  • Despite cleansings with vinegar and spongings with gall, she had given birth to fifteen children, of whom eleven were still alive, but she had good reason to suppose that she was settling into maturity, because her daughter Clara, the youngest of her children, was now ten.†   (source)
  • One of them said that he couldn't believe anyone had had the gall to try to sneak him into Alicante to begin with.†   (source)
  • Then you have the gall to call yourself my mother?†   (source)
  • How could a man like Dov Baer have the gall to fool other people into thinking that he could look into their hearts and tell them what they were really like inside?†   (source)
  • But it wouldn't come up, only a bitter spurt of gall filled my mouth and splattered the old folk's possessions.†   (source)
  • My mouth was dry as ashes and tasted as if I'd sucked a gall.†   (source)
  • I could not believe Patsy's gall.†   (source)
  • After Grandpa went back to work just before Christmas, Aunt Loma had the gall to go ask him herself to raise Camp's pay.†   (source)
  • He'd never imagined becoming the voice of the Raison Strain, but his gall in breaking the story had somehow caught a wave of appreciation with the viewers.†   (source)
  • I might rip your gall bladder out with my bare hands if you don't," Pig said.†   (source)
  • Their man gets killed and we have the gall to tell them to stay out.†   (source)
  • The attorney Giuliani was Italian, and Italy had designs upon the very mountains where they, the Austrians, had to respond to questions posed by Italians who had had the gall to come there in the first place.†   (source)
  • The operation was to remove the gall bladder of some wretched peasant from el-Minoufiya and after this had been done, Dr. Mansour asked Hisham to sew up the wound.†   (source)
  • Lucas actually had the gall to laugh.†   (source)
  • And you have the gall to try to tell me I'm—"†   (source)
  • Fresh kills, where the whole carcass was available for examination, were hard to come by; but on a number of occasions I reached a deer almost as soon as the wolves had killed it and, with inexcusable gall, shooed the wolves away.†   (source)
  • This is gall, and it will kill me.†   (source)
  • Nor does it mean that the ears of a New Yorker might not have been burned at McGuire's epithet; but such words are the common coin of the streets and of taxi drivers, and most New York denizens would have swallowed their gall and likewise kept their mouths shut.†   (source)
  • It made him lastingly righteous so that he knew just what to say in the Jackson Daily News when one of our fellow Mississippians had the unmitigated gall to publish, and expect other Mississippians to read, a book like Sanctuary.†   (source)
  • And suddenly I thought of that valley of the turkeys and wondered how I could have the gall to think turkeys stupid.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND Then how in perdition do you have the gall to whoop up this holy war against something you don't knov anything about?†   (source)
  • The ease with which he did the job, often in a round or two without working up a sweat, was gall in the white supremacist's soul.†   (source)
  • We mount the stamped-out steps of the city bus with humility, knowing our gall, and more or less pure of heart as three old Jews (a balding, middle-aged man and his two thin sons, pedants in plastic spectacles, each one bearing, timidly, his meaningless, cheap token).†   (source)
  • Can you not feel his gall-bitter disappointment at what you snatched from him after he thought you had promised this boon?†   (source)
  • And raise the level of the gall of yesterday Within the cup, by adding to it today's yearning.†   (source)
  • MORE My Master had easel and gall, not wine, given him to drink.†   (source)
  • He has written Cotter Pyke, and even had the bloody gall to show me the letter.†   (source)
  • They were as bitter as gall, but he chewed them anyway, spit them out, and got others.†   (source)
  • "Colonel," I said solemnly, "I don't see how they had the gall to pass me up."†   (source)
  • I do not propose to go on as I have been, feeding on the gall of my own grief.†   (source)
  • The gall of them, fighting back.†   (source)
  • The radial branches above the gall trailed dozens of nimbus vines, each looking silver and metallic against the clear green and lapis sky.†   (source)
  • Henryk slept on the operating table, I slept in the gynaecological chair, and when I woke in the morning my eyes would see the X-ray pictures hung up above my head to dry, showing diseased hearts, tubercular lungs, gall bladders full of stones, broken bones.†   (source)
  • A cousin who had argued with her sister because her sister had had the gall to buy the same exact coffee table as she.†   (source)
  • German materialists in the nineteenth century claimed that the relationship of thought to the brain was like the relationship of urine to the kidneys and gall to the liver.†   (source)
  • But she had the gall to ask if me and some a my maid friends might want a put down on paper what it's like to tend for white people.†   (source)
  • You do not lack for gall, Kingslayer.†   (source)
  • Gall rose in Ari's throat, burning him, and with a roar, he smashed his bo down on the other Eraser's head.†   (source)
  • He does not lack for gall, this Frog.†   (source)
  • A sharp, tannic odor filled his nostrils as he unstoppered the bottle and dipped the quill into the oak-gall ink.†   (source)
  • Back then, as a teenager with the report in my hand, I could not believe her gall, how she seemingly got away with everything.†   (source)
  • They threw cow gall onto the courtyard and, rubbed hot chili on the walls, thinking they could defeat her pernicious vice with those methods, but she showed such signs of astuteness and ingenuity to find some earth that Ursula found herself forced to use more drastic methods.†   (source)
  • He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.†   (source)
  • …tortures to which she had submitted Pietro Crespi had not been dictated by a desire for vengeance, as everyone had thought, nor had the slow martyrdom with which she had frustrated the life of Colonel Gerineldo Marquez been determined by the gall of her bitterness, as everyone had thought, but that both actions had been a mortal struggle between a measureless love and an invincible cowardice, and that the irrational fear that Amaranta had always had of her own tormented heart had…†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, when her husband asked ifit was not possible to have a soft-boiled egg, she did not answer simply that they had run out of eggs the week before, but she worked up a violent diatribe against men who spent their time contemplating their navels and then had the gall to ask for larks' livers at the table.†   (source)
  • "What gall!" said Mrs. Fletcher.†   (source)
  • "What gall," said Mrs. Fletcher.†   (source)
  • "What gall," said Mrs. Fletcher.†   (source)
  • The infernal gall of offering you that kind of work!†   (source)
  • "One reason," said the magician, "is the immortal feud of Gael and Gall.†   (source)
  • The forced inaction of their position seemed to gall him more than the others.†   (source)
  • But not because Chance Wayne had the unbelievable gall to come back to St Cloud.†   (source)
  • What were the drops of, of pure essence, or of gall?†   (source)
  • Well, my gentle Genya, he said-you know how bitingly he could sneer-Is gall a spicy drink?†   (source)
  • "It smells of anis but it is bitter as gall," he said.†   (source)
  • There is the feud of Gael and Gall which we have been talking about, but there are other feuds too.†   (source)
  • You will admit that nothing she says or does appears to gall him.†   (source)
  • I know I've got gall asking for Miss Suellen now when I haven't a cent but—well, it's this way.†   (source)
  • He's worse than Dwight Carson, worse than the whole lot of Gall's pets put together.†   (source)
  • And there is the whole hatred of Gael and Gall, and this New Order of Mordred's.†   (source)
  • I don't see how you have the gall to face me!" she cried.†   (source)
  • He is a Gall like yourself, a member of the ruling class who conquered the Islands long ago.†   (source)
  • You have the gall to stand there and boast to me, your wife, that—†   (source)
  • Across the street again, before the windows of the Van W. Yeats Shoe Company, the Reverend J. Brooks Gall, Amherst ('61), and as loyal a Deke as ever breathed, but looking only sixty of his seventy-three years, paused in his brisk walk, and engaged in sprightly monologue, three of his fellow Boy Scouts—the Messrs.†   (source)
  • Gall.†   (source)
  • He had the gall—the—†   (source)
  • Stuff's as bitter as gall.†   (source)
  • The tree has now become the cross: the White Youth sucking milk has become the Crucified swallowing gall.†   (source)
  • He hated Gall.†   (source)
  • …in this unbidden April's compounded demonry and suggest that they breed together for test and sample and if it was a boy they would marry; would not have had to be blown back to town on the initial blast of that horror and outrage to eat of gall and wormwood stolen through paling fences at dawn: so this was not fixed at all and forever because she couldn't even tell it because of who her successor was, not because he found a successor by just turning around and no day's loss of time…†   (source)
  • Oh, the gall of your kind!†   (source)
  • And I began to realize why so few sensitive Negroes had had the gall to come as close to them as I had.†   (source)
  • It's all about a gallstone that thinks that it's an independent entity, a sort of a rugged individualist of the gall bladder, if you see what I mean, and then the man takes a big dose of castor oil—there's a graphic description of the consequences—I'm not sure it's correct medically, but anyway that's the end of the Gallant Gallstone.†   (source)
  • Then there was Gall, the Hungarian, who ought to be shot if you could believe half you heard at Gaylord's.†   (source)
  • Into the Tenth Street Crosstown car, slowing down at Avenue A, the voice of the pale, gilt-spectacled, fanatic face rang out above all other sounds: above the oozy and yearning "Open the door to Jesus" of the Salvation Army singing in the park; above the words of the fat woman swaying in the car as she said, "So the doctor said cut out all meat if you don't want gall-stones.†   (source)
  • Golz has always hated Gall.†   (source)
  • Golz hated Gall.†   (source)
  • There were three Gaels to every Gall among the tents, but they were surprised and taken at a disadvantage.†   (source)
  • Somehow the bright beauty had gone from the April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.†   (source)
  • Gall and Copic, who were men of politics and of ambition, would agree and later, men who never saw the map, but heard the number of the hill before they left their starting place and had the earth of diggings on it pointed out, would climb its side to find their death along its slope or, being halted by machine guns placed in olive groves would never get up it at all.†   (source)
  • They had been talking, before the eagle-owl woke up, about the earlier wrongs of their family—about their grandmother, Igraine, who had been wronged by Arthur's father —about all the long-gone feud of Gael and Gall, which had been taught them by their dam in old Dunlothian.†   (source)
  • And to think that Rhett would have the gall to look a decent woman in the face after being with that creature!†   (source)
  • It was the unfairness of the rape of their Cornish grandmother which was hurting Gareth—the picture of weak and innocent people victimized by a resistless tyranny—the old tyranny of the Gall—which was felt like a personal wrong by every crofter of the Islands.†   (source)
  • Without sugar or cream it was bitter as gall, for the sorghum used for "long sweetening" did little to improve the taste.†   (source)
  • And on top of it all, he had the consummate gall to stand here in the road and insult her with his infamous proposals.†   (source)
  • …the race, now represented by the Irish Republican Army rather than by the Scots Nationalists, who had always murdered landlords and blamed them for being murdered—the race which could make a national hero of a man like Lynchahaun, because he bit off a woman's nose and she a Gall—the race which had been expelled by the volcano of history into the far quarters of the globe, where, with a venomous sense of grievance and inferiority, they even nowadays proclaim their ancient megalomania.†   (source)
  • How have you the gall to face me?†   (source)
  • How droll the stains one sees on fine-laced doublets, From gall of envy, or the poltroon's drivel!†   (source)
  • Don't thet beady-eyed greaser's gall make you want to spit all over yourself?†   (source)
  • Even so was it that into the gall of Claggart's envy he infused the vitriol of his contempt.†   (source)
  • This kind of thing was gall and bitterness to Mrs. Morel, and she had a fair share of it.†   (source)
  • The mildness of my nature had fled, and all within me was turned to gall and bitterness.†   (source)
  • There was mingled gall and honey in this intelligence.†   (source)
  • Five minutes after, it was down; and we sailed under mizzen-tops'ls and to'gall'nt sails.†   (source)
  • The grave is here; The world is gall And bitterness all.†   (source)
  • He had, they mirthfully related, declared that anybody who kept hogs would die of small-pox; he had been drunk for a week, and diagnosed everything from gall-stones to heart-burn as small-pox.†   (source)
  • But believe me, believe me, my simple-hearted friends, that in this highly moral verse, in this academical blessing to the world in general in the French language, is hidden the intensest gall and bitterness; but so well concealed is the venom, that I dare say the poet actually persuaded himself that his words were full of the tears of pardon and peace, instead of the bitterness of disappointment and malice, and so died in the delusion.†   (source)
  • But Newland Archer was too imaginative not to feel that, in his case and May's, the tie might gall for reasons far less gross and palpable.†   (source)
  • I went below and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal and still bled freely, but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.†   (source)
  • This had been gall and wormwood to him.†   (source)
  • However, it is the same nowadays; every wise man's mouth complimenting another wise man is a vase of honeyed gall.†   (source)
  • Nor have Gall and his disciple Spurzheim failed to throw out some hints touching the phrenological characteristics of other beings than man.†   (source)
  • When he began his talk he hoped to be able to gall them a little and get a trifle of malicious entertainment out of it.†   (source)
  • But now I am going to sharpen my pen till they can feel its point; I shall dip it in venom and gall; I shall hurl my inkpot at their heads!†   (source)
  • Exhausted by emotion, my language was more subdued than it generally was when it developed that sad theme; and mindful of Helen's warnings against the indulgence of resentment, I infused into the narrative far less of gall and wormwood than ordinary.†   (source)
  • He's as bitter as gall at your desertion and its consequences: don't expect thanks for this noble devotion.†   (source)
  • It's all hard, whichever way I look at it,—the harness 'ull gall me, but it 'ud be summat to draw along the old road, instead of a new un."†   (source)
  • I believe there was not a soul in the place, except myself, who knew that she did it purposely to wound and gall me!†   (source)
  • I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected.†   (source)
  • And he made folks love him and respect him, and that was better nor stirring up their gall wi' being overbusy.†   (source)
  • I wonder not that the restraint appears to gall you—more it were for your honour to have retained the dress and language of an outlaw, than to veil the deeds of one under an affectation of gentle language and demeanour.†   (source)
  • His was one of the natures in which conscience gets the more active when the yoke of life ceases to gall them.†   (source)
  • I consider that when a dependent does her duty as well as you have done yours, she has a sort of claim upon her employer for any little assistance he can conveniently render her; indeed I have already, through my future mother-in-law, heard of a place that I think will suit: it is to undertake the education of the five daughters of Mrs. Dionysius O'Gall of Bitternutt Lodge, Connaught, Ireland.†   (source)
  • Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.†   (source)
  • Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar, or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipulated the Dome of the Pantheon.†   (source)
  • Unworthy son, coward, liar,—you, who hold your councils with thieves and murderers in dark rooms at night,—you, whose plots and wiles have brought a violent death upon the head of one worth millions such as you,—you, who from your cradle were gall and bitterness to your own father's heart, and in whom all evil passions, vice, and profligacy, festered, till they found a vent in a hideous disease which had made your face an index even to your mind—you, Edward Leeford, do you still brave…†   (source)
  • 'Take in two reefs in the tops'ls,' cried the captain; 'let go the bowlin's, haul the brace, lower the to'gall'nt sails, haul out the reef-tackles on the yards.'†   (source)
  • This silence of hers brought a new rush of gall to that bitter mood in which Lydgate had been saying to himself that nobody believed in him—even Farebrother had not come forward.†   (source)
  • The prospect of the friend's being married so soon was the gall, and the certainty of her not entertaining serious designs upon Nicholas was the honey.†   (source)
  • And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him.†   (source)
  • Very slight matters were enough to gall him in his sensitive mood, and the sight of Dorothea driving past him while he felt himself plodding along as a poor devil seeking a position in a world which in his present temper offered him little that he coveted, made his conduct seem a mere matter of necessity, and took away the sustainment of resolve.†   (source)
  • The thought of Mrs. O'Gall and Bitternutt Lodge struck cold to my heart; and colder the thought of all the brine and foam, destined, as it seemed, to rush between me and the master at whose side I now walked, and coldest the remembrance of the wider ocean — wealth, caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved.†   (source)
  • That his, of all others, should have been the hands to rescue his miserable child; that he should have been his protector and faithful friend; that he should have shown him that love and tenderness which, from the wretched moment of his birth, he had never known; that he should have taught him to hate his own parent and execrate his very name; that he should now know and feel all this, and triumph in the recollection; was gall and madness to the usurer's heart.†   (source)
  • A hundred writers since Socrates, Seneca, St. Augustine, and Gall, have made, in verse and prose, the comparison you have made, and yet I can well understand that a father's sufferings may effect great changes in the mind of a son.†   (source)
  • His face grown dark with rage, the great Earthshaker said: "The gall of him!†   (source)
  • Have you the gall to send an arrow like a fork of lightning home against Menelaos?†   (source)
  • Before we two retire on the ships let us bring off some feat to gall the Trojans.†   (source)
  • And if he balks at giving her I shall be there myself with men-at-arms in force to take her—all the more gall for him.†   (source)
  • But there is not one thing that you can do about it, only estrange yourself still more from me— all the more gall for you.†   (source)
  • Among the rocks of Sipylos' lonely mountainside, where nymphs who race Akheloios river go to rest, she, too, long turned to stone, somewhere broods on the gall immortal gods gave her to drink.†   (source)
  • I gall his kibe.†   (source)
  • —Have you found those six brave medicals, John Eglinton asked with elder's gall, to write Paradise Lost at your dictation?†   (source)
  • …and S. Synonymous and S. Laurence O'Toole and S. James of Dingle and Compostella and S. Columcille and S. Columba and S. Celestine and S. Colman and S. Kevin and S. Brendan and S. Frigidian and S. Senan and S. Fachtna and S. Columbanus and S. Gall and S. Fursey and S. Fintan and S. Fiacre and S. John Nepomuc and S. Thomas Aquinas and S. Ives of Brittany and S. Michan and S. Herman-Joseph and the three patrons of holy youth S. Aloysius Gonzaga and S. Stanislaus Kostka and S. John…†   (source)
  • …buried, Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side, Nor the little child that peep'd in at the door, and then drew back and was never seen again, Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall, Nor him in the poor house tubercled by rum and the bad disorder, Nor the numberless slaughter'd and wreck'd, nor the brutish koboo call'd the ordure of humanity, Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in, Nor any…†   (source)
  • What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?†   (source)
  • So looks the chafed lion Upon the daring huntsman that has gall'd him; Then makes him nothing.†   (source)
  • 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.†   (source)
  • I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall, Now seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall.†   (source)
  • Poles, sharpen'd in the flames, from high they throw, With imitated darts, to gall the foe.†   (source)
  • GUARD I gall thine ears—this miscreant thy mind.†   (source)
  • Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.†   (source)
  • A' has a little gall'd me, I confess; And, as the jest did glance away from me, 'Tis ten to one it maim'd you two outright.†   (source)
  • His employment, from his first coming into the academy, was an operation to reduce human excrement to its original food, by separating the several parts, removing the tincture which it receives from the gall, making the odour exhale, and scumming off the saliva.†   (source)
  • 20:25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.†   (source)
  • *troops In kinges' habit went her sones two, As heires of their father's regnes all; And Heremanno and Timolao Their names were, as Persians them call But aye Fortune hath in her honey gall; This mighty queene may no while endure; Fortune out of her regne made her fall To wretchedness and to misadventure.†   (source)
  • A pestilent gall to me!†   (source)
  • Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, your murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief!†   (source)
  • All studies here I solemnly defy, Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke: And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales, But that I think his father loves him not, And would be glad he met with some mischance, I'd have him poison'd with a pot of ale.†   (source)
  • Within an ace of being Count was he, And would have been but for the spite and gall Of this vile age, mean and illiberal, That cannot even let a donkey be.†   (source)
  • Well, I am loath to gall a new-healed wound: your day's service at Shrewsbury hath a little gilded over your night's exploit on Gad's-hill: you may thank the unquiet time for your quiet o'er-posting that action.†   (source)
  • ] Welcome, mistress:— Let it not gall your patience, good Iago, That I extend my manners; 'tis my breeding That gives me this bold show of courtesy.†   (source)
  • I leave the gall and go for the sweet fruits promised me by my veracious Leader; but far as the centre needs must I first descend.†   (source)
  • your majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not: let the gall'd jade wince; our withers are unwrung.†   (source)
  • Gall! bitter.†   (source)
  • All gall and copperas from his ink he draineth, Only a little salt remaineth, Wherewith he'll rub your cheeks, till red, with laughter, They shall look fresh a week after.†   (source)
  • So that, as the days of whipping were at an end, the tutor had no other vent but his own mouth for his gall, the usual poor resource of impotent revenge.†   (source)
  • He doth object, I am too great of birth; And that my state being gall'd with my expense, I seek to heal it only by his wealth.†   (source)
  • Which, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature From the fix'd place; drew from my heart all love, And added to the gall.†   (source)
  • 16:13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.†   (source)
  • Perturbed in soul, I straight essayed the sacrifice by fire On blazing altars, but the God of Fire Came not in flame, and from the thigh bones dripped And sputtered in the ashes a foul ooze; Gall-bladders cracked and spurted up: the fat Melted and fell and left the thigh bones bare.†   (source)
  • With deadly wounds he gall'd the distant foe; Gnossian his shafts, and Lycian was his bow: A golden helm his front and head surrounds A gilded quiver from his shoulder sounds.†   (source)
  • Thou griev'st my gall.†   (source)
  • *caught with bird-lime And some men said that we do love the best For to be free, and do *right as us lest,* *whatever we please* And that no man reprove us of our vice, But say that we are wise, and nothing nice,* *foolish <7> For truly there is none among us all, If any wight will *claw us on the gall,* *see note <8>* That will not kick, for that he saith us sooth: Assay,* and he shall find it, that so do'th.†   (source)
  • Sir, I am thankful to you; and I'll go along By your prescription; but this top-proud fellow, Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but From sincere motions, by intelligence, And proofs as clear as founts in July when We see each grain of gravel, I do know To be corrupt and treasonous.†   (source)
  • 'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter; or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!†   (source)
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