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Cuba also eliminated a 10 percent tax on remittances that had galled Cuban-Americans sending money to their families.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2011

He had already begun to feel trapped; unwilling to go forward; unable to go back; and the fact that no inner secrets were confided to him, had galled his Rajput vanity and pride.

From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Diver, Maud

The memory of months of brutal injustice and bullying, the bitterness of which had galled beyond endurance, supported this last mighty effort.

From The Man in the Twilight by Cullum, Ridgwell

Mittie had always thought her stiff and formal—now there was a graceful abandonment about her, as if she had thrown off chains which had galled her, or a burden which oppressed.

From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee

The assumption of superiority on the part of the sons of Zebedee and others was called in question, and it suddenly appeared how this assumption had galled the rest and rankled in their minds.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus