Gallous

The billy flood rose or an elk charged him or the sultrup worldwright from the excelsissimost empyrean (bolt, in sum) earthspake or the Dannamen gallous banged pan the bliddy du-ran. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Should I have loved you from the beginning had we toddled to the rencounter; and would my love have passed safely through the "gallous young hound" period; and could I love you more now in any case, had I _all_ your days treasured up in my heart, instead of less than a year of them? ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

He used to know you when he was in service at the H---- s, and speaks of you as being then "a gallous young hound," whatever that may mean. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

My Dearest: See what an effect your "gallous young hound" episode has had on me. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

You must find me somebody who was a "gallous young hound" in the days of his youth -- Crossjay, for instance: -- there! ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Father Reilly’s after reading it in gallous Latin, and “It’s come in the nick of time, ” says he; “so I’ll wed them in a hurry, dreading that young gaffer who’d capsize the stars. ❋ John Millington (1911)

I’ll say, a strange man is a marvel, with his mighty talk; but what’s a squabble in your back-yard, and the blow of a loy, have taught me that there’s a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed. ❋ John Millington (1911)

Ah, you’ll have a gallous jaunt I’m saying, coaching out through Limbo with my father’s ghost. ❋ John Millington (1911)

Ah, you'll have a gallous jaunt I'm saying, coaching out through Limbo with my father's ghost. ❋ Unknown (1907)

-- Father Reilly's after reading it in gallous Latin, and "It's come in the nick of time," says he; "so I'll wed them in a hurry, dreading that young gaffer who'd capsize the stars." ❋ Unknown (1907)

'They're gallous lads for walking round through the world. ❋ Unknown (1890)

Anne Lister was a 19th century Yorkshire landowner, industrialist, traveller and, of course, gay lady who was gallous and guilt-free about her sexuality and passionate about defying the customs and rules of her time. ❋ Sarah (2010)

His punishment if I may iudg, shalbe naught els but the gallous ❋ Anonymous (1575)

Dearest, what I can tell you of older days, -- little things they must be -- I will: and I know that if you ever come to value them at all, their littleness will make them doubly welcome: -- just as to know that you were once called a "gallous young hound" by people whom you plagued when a boy, was to me a darling discovery: all at once I caught my childhood's imaginary comrade to my young spirit's heart and kissed him, brow and eyes. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

a squabble in your back-yard, and the blow of a loy, have taught me that there's a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed. ❋ Unknown (1907)

Pegeen may know the difference "between a gallous story and a dirty deed," but that does not stop her from breaking out into wild lamentations: "Oh, my grief, I've lost him surely. ❋ Rolfe Arnold Scott-James (N/A)

Very often, if the roguery is very great, or we are brought face to face with its effects and realize it is a real thing in real life, we will be shocked out of our sympathy with it, and realize, as did Pegeen Mike, the difference between a "gallous story and ❋ Cornelius Weygandt (1914)