Sentence examples for gall of a from inspiring English sources

"He had the gall of a canal horse, that guy," said a detective who was assigned to investigate the explosion.

I stirred the caldron of nearly boiling borax with the gall of a necromancer, invoking help for murder.

Just marveling at the gall of a beer-soaked joint that keeps a rug on the floor is worth the price of admission (which is $0).

-- his name omitted at Mr. Skemer's request -- attacked Lindbergh for having "the unmitigated gall of a freak of destiny, suffering from a Garbo complex".

By the time I reached my destination, I was marveling at the gall of a company that would make such a thing and then ask for my largess when it turned out to be unprofitable.

If you can see past the dismal sexual politics of "Bad Teacher," which I couldn't, you might applaud the gall of a film that expends so little effort in forcing us to like its central character.

This is bad luck for poets, mostly Homer, who has the gall "of telling a lie, and, what is more, a bad lie" in portraying the gods as emotional and capricious beings.

The galls of a randomly-selected subset of those marked for monitoring were bagged securely with the feet of sheer, white, polyamide stockings.

According to a report by Carlotta Gall of the New York Times, a "16-year-old newly married girl was cut down while she was carrying a bundle of grass to her family's farmhouse..

"It is widely believed that bile from the gall bladder of a crocodile is very poisonous," writes Neuwinger in African Ethnobotany.

To complain about the verbal misfires of cricketers while using as grist for your mill one man stricken with grief and another who can no longer speak for himself takes the gall of … well, a sledger.