1 Without sugar or cream it was bitter as gall, for the sorghum used for "long sweetening" did little to improve the taste.
2 And on top of it all, he had the consummate gall to stand here in the road and insult her with his infamous proposals.
3 I know I've got gall asking for Miss Suellen now when I haven't a cent but--well, it's this way.
4 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.
5 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.
6 Then I feel I've swallowed gall, and it's eating my inside out, and nowhere's far enough away to get away.
7 Ashamed that she was poor and reduced to galling shifts and penury and work that negroes should do.
8 Rhett's words and the children's reactions opened her eyes to a startling, a galling truth.
9 She remembered her helplessness and her panic at her helplessness and her hatred of the Yankees who had imposed this galling system upon the South.
10 Mrs. Trenor's unconsciousness of the real stress of the situation had the effect of making it more galling to Lily.
11 Their hope was to push the galling foes away from the fence.
12 The chain that bound her here was of iron links, and galling to her inmost soul, but could never be broken.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE 13 To most libraries, lectures, concerts, and museums, Negroes are either not admitted at all, or on terms peculiarly galling to the pride of the very classes who might otherwise be attracted.
14 He was fully as uncomfortable as he looked; for there was a restraint about whole clothes and cleanliness that galled him.
15 When he returned he had a small limb of a tree in his hand and he laid it mercilessly across the horse's galled back.