It kind of galled him, but it would work; Maury knew it would.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shiver]

I read today that Hillary is "galled" and "insulted" that Palin is comparing herself to her.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Palin is now where she is ... not because she has fought her way to the top of the national greasy pole."] Reference

Yesterday, the cheery name galled him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press of Atlantic City: Editorials] Reference

He could do nothing and his helplessness galled him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the East] Reference

For the first time, the yoke of discipline galled him.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference

Sit farther back, so you will not hurt that galled place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference

He never galled himself with packs that weigh about a ton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference

He pressed her hard in his cold way, and it galled her sorely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

I thought that he was galled to feel that he had been beaten by a novice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

The burden which had sometimes galled him had grown welcome in a single instant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Had they been real chains they could have galled him no more than at this moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

Labourers were ineffectual; but they galled the labourers and kept serfdom alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference

I am afraid the men are few who have escaped a galled spot upon their consciences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

He might employ Purvis, but it galled him to think that his future lay in his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

Mannering's amusement, but my own consciousness of the truth of the criticism that galled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

Then it will debend upon yourselves whether you are galled upon to rehearse again or no. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

The very obligation, too, to be tied down to a certain routine and chained to a desk, galled me.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference

But, galled and stung by a sense of my follies and demerit, I strove to throw the blame on others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

I was galled, too, by the rumor touching a relationship which had grown current in the upper forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from Poe] Reference

Hellespont, passing the celebrated castles in the Dardanelles, which so severely galled the British.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference

A horse that is laden with gold and pearls all day, may have a foul stable and a galled back at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference

Frank knew in his heart that his friends were right, but it galled him horribly to defer the adventure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference

THE yoke of Poverty galled him exceedingly, and he hated his taskmistress with a most rancorous hatred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference

I observed that Peter sneered whilst he said this, and so did all the rest, and it galled me a good deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

It galled them to see a powerful fleet and a standing army watching all the inlets to the town, -- to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

Even moderate Turks were galled by the European Union's refusal to discuss membership with Turkey last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Nation Turns Inward] Reference

It galled him to discuss things with her since she had ceased to ask about them or even to show any concern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

That galled the Savile Row group, which fired off a complaint to the U. K.'s Advertising Standards Authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Tailor Needles Savile Row, Gets Himself a (Law)Suit] Reference

The inferiority of his position galled one who claimed Vergil and Homer as his equals in the world of letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference

Such spots too often lie waste or galled or at best are covered with weeds, briars, bushes or useless scrubby trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917] Reference

Kennon looked down at her smudged face, streaked with the sudden rivulets of tears, and bitterness galled his throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lani People] Reference

We are here in their very home, and, galled by their furious stinging onslaughts, can recall nothing but Ayres's exclamation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

"Which way now?" asked Steve, evidently pleased that they were going to make a move of any sort; for inaction galled him always.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island] Reference

"Yes, he knows me pretty well," the man replied, as he looked with anxious sympathy at a saddle-galled place on the horse's back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference

A great multitude of men and women have been obliged to work in the collar of poverty, against a galled pride, during all their life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

The affront thus put upon them galled them to the quick, and on the following day they held a secret meeting to discuss their wrongs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference

The retreat was as disorderly as at their first advent, but their rear was not galled by aught but flying sparks and burning timbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference

It galled him a little to think that he'd been offered a chance to do research with Scholar Duckworth and hadn't been able to take it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Giveaway] Reference

Very few men arrive at thirty-five years of age without getting galled, and very few entirely recover from the abrasion while they live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference