gall-midges

Updated: August 19, 2026

But when I carried the whip to the doctor's house that night, M. Picot received it with scant grace! Whispers gall-midges among evil tongues were raising a buzz that boded ill for the doctor. France had paid spies among the English, some said.

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - Heralds of Empire: Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade