gally
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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'd a soon be a gally slave, as lead the life she did!
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray
This term I understood from the Bungan tribe to mean saltwater; water being kally, gally, or gallo.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Thomas Mitchell
There are irregularities also in the auxiliary verbs gwîl, to do, and gally, to be able, but these have been already given in Chapter IX.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
Jack was handy in the cabin, and capital feller to carry soup from the gally, aft.
From Jack Tier by James Fenimore Cooper
What did the captain say when he paid you off B+" "He didn't say he was gallied," replied the sailor, with a knowing look, "but I'll bet he is.
From Marcy The Blockade Runner by George G. (George Gorgas) White
We've all been gallied at the dairy at what might ha' been a most terrible affliction since you and your Mis'ess—so to name her now—left us this a'ternoon.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Every look-out from a mast-head notices that, when one whale is struck, at the very impact of the harpoon the whole school is "gallied" or stampeded as they hear the death-song.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
All I'm gallied about is what the others'll think.
From Isle o' Dreams by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
Getting away in good style, we had barely got the sails up, when something gallied the school.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
