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  • She rubbed stiffened and saddle-galled knees, then straightened her crumpled clothing.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • Roused to the sting of saddle-galled knees, she stirred under the scrutiny of Stormwarden and Kielmark.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • And when, at close of day, weary and hungry, foot-sore or saddle-galled, he halts for refreshment and repose, it seems but the beginning of his labours.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

  • One animal was found at the last moment to be saddle-galled, and was rejected summarily, despite its "father's" frenzied assurances.

    Morocco S.L. Bensusan

  • "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.

    Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas Various

  • It was a long stride from the ownership of one saddle-galled donkey to the undisputed rule of an empire.

    The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston S. Churchill 1919

  • He had intended to substitute a slow, saddle-galled baggage-colt.

    The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • A man who has been saddle-galled or shoulder-bruised for half the day is not at his London best of evenings; and when the bills for his amusements come in he curtails his expenses in other directions.

    A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The saddle-galled donkeys, the starved pariah dogs, the flies round the eyes of the babies, the naked children, the importunate begging, the ragged, untidy women, -- they were all challenges to her conscience, and she plunged in bravely at her work of reformation.

    A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • The horses suffered most; the extreme toil, and scant pasturage weakened them so that some died from exhaustion; others fell over precipices and the magpies proved evil foes, picking the sore backs of the wincing, saddle-galled beasts.

    The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

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