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.

Finnegans Wake 2006

My Dearest: See what an effect your "gallous young hound" episode has had on me.

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

You must find me somebody who was a "gallous young hound" in the days of his youth -- Crossjay, for instance: -- there!

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

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?

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

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.

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

Ah, you’ll have a gallous jaunt I’m saying, coaching out through Limbo with my father’s ghost.

Act Three John Millington 1911

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.

Act Three 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.

Act Three John Millington 1911

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

The Playboy of the Western World; a Comedy in Three Acts 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."

The Playboy of the Western World; a Comedy in Three Acts 1907