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  • It evens out if I show a commitment to and flexibility about what I have chosen to do (whine, ruminate, ask annoyingly rhetorical questions, make lists) with My So-Galled Life.

    Adam Baer: No Job = No Layoff! 2009

  • Galled by the collar of this iron system, wild desires seized him to fly when he compared himself in the street with the well-dressed young men whom he met.

    A Start in Life 2007

  • Galled and irritated with himself, he sat down, and went on, in no improved humour:

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • KTLA: Galled by decades of this kind of equation, New York publishing houses have launched ventures intended to get a bigger piece of the Hollywood action.

    Literary Adaptation Bread : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2006

  • Galled by this indifference, John Rex had attempted to practise those ingenious arts of torment by which Gabbett,

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • After sharing “The Day God Galled You Home” with the family, I felt that it helped all of us to heal.

    Quilts Are Forever Kathy Lamancusa 2002

  • After sharing “The Day God Galled You Home” with the family, I felt that it helped all of us to heal.

    Quilts Are Forever Kathy Lamancusa 2002

  • After sharing “The Day God Galled You Home” with the family, I felt that it helped all of us to heal.

    Quilts Are Forever Kathy Lamancusa 2002

  • Galled by its fetters of flesh, seared with a thousand scars,

    The Path of Dreams Poems Leigh Gordon Giltner

  • Galled perhaps by the fire of Carpenter's battery, the British light troops retired to their main line, and the firing from this time was continued chiefly by the artillery.

    The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston

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