gally

Example Sentences

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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here did God hold foorth his buckler, he shieldeth now this gally, and hath tried their faith to the vttermost.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard

P. Penilesse, in his Supplication to the Divell, says: "Some gally gascoynes or shipman's hose, like the Anabaptists," &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

He feared that the noise would gally the quarry; a whale has remarkable hearing in certain circumstances.

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry

I'd a soon be a gally slave, as lead the life she did!

From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace