All 3 Uses of
gall
in
Middlemarch
- His was one of the natures in which conscience gets the more active when the yoke of life ceases to gall them.†
Chpt 5 *
- 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.†
Chpt 6
- 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.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(gall as in: had the gall to) boldness and rudeness to say or do things that are not acceptable to others