gilly

Example Sentences

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An hour later, in a pool strongly recommended by the gilly, another fish was caught.

From The Simpkins Plot by Birmingham, George A.

The gilly flowers, the yellow boys, says you!

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

Then he looked at the garden and saw that it was full of jessamine and gilly flowers and violets and roses and orange blossoms and all manner sweet-scented blooms and herbs.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

You made all my people think you were a straight guy; you played the role of a gilly kid to the queen's taste.

From Watch Yourself Go By by Warden, Ben W.

"Don't pull, madam," shouted the gilly, and it was well he did, for I was just on the point of giving an awful jerk to get the fish loose from Jone.

From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Stockton, Frank Richard