galleass

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I was rising seventeen, as I said, and gunner's mate aboard the Anne Gallant, a noble galleass.

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My Guide assur'd me that a Venetian Galleass was not afraid of twenty five Turkish Galleys: This may be; but I407 wou'd venture a Wager on the side of the Infidels.

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The number of oars or sweeps varied, the larger galley having twenty-five on each side; the galleass as many as thirty-two, each being worked by several men.

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In the panic the great galleass of Don Hugo de Monçada ran aground on the sands and there lay basking in the sun, an unconcerned witness of the conflict that ensued between Pym and Trollope, who had now turned Spaniard, on the one side and Drusilla and her brother on the other.

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In another Place, opposite Sir Tirlogh O'Brien's House, there was another great Ship lost, supposed to be a Galleass.

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