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Meanings of galling yoke in English

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Usage of galling yoke in English
1
One is not bound down by a galling yoke of ecclesiastical tyranny.
Mr. World and Miss Church-Member: A Twentieth Century Allegory
2
An industrious young man can always free himself from a galling yoke.
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
3
The Negro winched under his galling yoke of British colonial oppression.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 / ...
4
Have you found my love, Anthony, such a galling yoke?
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
5
The wedlock that promised to be a blessed union proved to be a galling yoke.
Sketches of the Covenanters
6
Gradually the Tsars threw off this galling yoke.
Russia
7
On the other hand, the negroes were threatened with an increase of the galling yoke of slavery.
My Life In The South
8
What does history disclose but marks of inferiority, and how few women have emancipated themselves from the galling yoke of sovereign man?
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / With Strictures on Politi...
9
Because the miserable herd of mankind is willing to submit to that galling yoke of marriage, does it follow that you must?
The Redemption of David Corson
10
They shrink in silent dread from the presence of their parents, and long for the time when they can escape their galling yoke.
The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
11
But here our Master speaks a word which only deepens the weariness of the woman, and irritates the sore of her galling yoke.
My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
12
So it fell out that the day on which my father in a fashion emancipated me, brought me under a most galling yoke.
The Magic Skin
13
German civilization I concede to be a magnificent thing-fora German; but it seems to press on an alien neck as a galling yoke.
Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
14
But servitude and disgrace are galling yokes, and it was not likely that so strong a character would long and meekly submit to them.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
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