All 3 Uses of
gall
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- There was mingled gall and honey in this intelligence.†
Chpt 12 *
- 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.†
Chpt 12
- 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.†
Chpt 62
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