The Indians came on pell-mell, but when they were within one hundred yards of us we opened such a sudden and galling fire upon them, that they held up and began to circle around the wagon instead of riding up to take tea with us.

There may possibly be found another explanation of these excessesnamely, in the galling strictness of the Prussian military regime.

The Russians, under their chief, Ivan III, threw off the galling Tartar yoke which they had borne for over two hundred years.

"When I was born the wind was north," said she: and then the storm and tempest, and all her father's sorrows, and her mother's death, came full into her mind; and she said, "My father, as Lychorida told me, did never fear, but cried, Courage, good seamen, to the sailors, galling his princely hands with the ropes, and, clasping to the mast, he endured a sea that almost split the deck."

His sufferings were indeed light, in comparison of those which were afterwards inflicted on the miserable Quakers by the government of Massachusetts; but still they were hard for flesh and blood to bear, and galling to a free spirit to receive from those who boasted of their own love of freedom.

This affection, the galling treatment received in his early years, and the disappointments of his prime, largely account for his misanthropy, for his coldness, and for the almost brutal treatment of the women who loved him.

To ills he mourns and spurns at; tear with stripes His quiv'ring flesh; with hunger and with thirst Waste his emaciate frame; in ceaseless toils Exhaust his vital powers; and bind his limbs In galling chains?

It must have been galling to the great philosopher to yield the palm to lesser men; but such has ever been the destiny of genius, except in crises of public danger.

A commission was appointed to visit every parish in Ireland and report the state of affairs to Parliament, when everybody already knew what this state was,one of glaring inequality and injustice, exceedingly galling to the Catholic population.

The house seemed so tiny and so suffocating after the splendid halls and huge rooms at Glencardine, while her aunt's constant sarcasm about her fatherwhom she had not seen for eight yearswas particularly galling.

And to me it's particularly galling, because I never exploded at all.

His own friends were the most tiresome, their open admiration of his lawlessness and their readiness to trace other mysterious disappearances to his agency being particularly galling to a man whose respectability formed his most cherished possession.

She was very angry with Maulevrier for having held her up to ridicule before Mr. Hammond, who already despised her, as she believed, and whose contempt was more galling than it need have been, considering that he was a mere casual visitor who would go away and return no more.

"It's just my confounded luck," said she, angrily, "just as I was counting on galling BELINDA, too.

She believed that he would now be willing to marry Veronica, but she understood that until now he would not have done itunless she had freed him from the galling remnant of his own conscience, and had formally given him his liberty.

So galling are the bonds of Southern slavery, that it could not live a year under the operation of a law forbidding the restoration of fugitive servants to their masters.

By taking it, would you not expose yourself to be most pertinently and embarrassingly asked, for what purpose these servants fled to a strange and most odious people?and would not your candid reply necessarily be, that it was to escape from the galling chains of slavery, to a far-famed milder type of servitude?from Gentile oppression, to a land in which human rights were protected by Divine laws?

Had its subjects worn the galling chains of American slavery, they would have struggled with bloody desperation for the deliverance which they saw accorded to others.

It is; and has all its fervor in favor of liberty been exhausted upon foreign countries, so as not to leave a single whisper in favor of three millions of men in our own country, now groaning under the most galling oppression the world ever saw?

Little by little these galling reports revived the military spirit in an Elder far to the south, who had thought that all passion was burned out of him.

For which is more galling to human pride, to be told,Sin is certainly a clever, and politic, and successful trade, as far as this world is concerned.

When the unfeeling avarice of our keepers confined us inside, or made our feet fast in the stocks, she, like a ministering angel, never ceased her applications to the Government until she was authorized to communicate to us the grateful news of our enlargement, or of a respite from our galling oppressions.

" The bags were heavy and their contents were rough and galling to the shoulders, but the captain was strong and his muscles were tough, and as he walked he planned a pair of cushions which he would wear under his golden epaulets in his future marches.

That inspiration overrode Hardly it quelled the galling load Of personal ill.

"So far from galling me to madness, the intelligence fills me with delight beyond expression.