It belongs to a romantic age where excess was atoned for by asceticism, and spasms of vice galled the kibe of negative virtue. |
Dutt actually looks plausible as the weather-beaten old literary lion, galled by his own unfashionability. |
The fly that will fall on none but the galled, ulcerous place, doth feed accordingly. |
It galled me when I thought how sportsman-like I had been to attract their attention. |
He had to live on her money, which galled him, and to be assisted by the Dean's money, which was wormwood to him. |
It galled him to do this, but he put on his best courtly air and bowed to his queen. |