gally
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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The canons let flie from both sides, and the gally is euen in the middest, and betweene them both.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard
Pd for a gally slabs seate for yeparson 00 01 00 1623.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
I have been chained to that gally thirty years, a long shot.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
He is to write to us first—God knows when!—for he said that if we didn’t hear from him for six months we were not to be gallied at all.’
From Two on a Tower by Hardy, Thomas
All I'm gallied about is what the others'll think.
From Isle o' Dreams by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)
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 Bullen, Frank T.
No mistake, Moore looked a bit gallied on it; an' he hum'd an' ha'd, an' threatened to brain Tregarvis if he laid a hand on the hide.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
It was left in her bedroom, and we be fairly gallied out of our senses!'
From The Well-Beloved by Hardy, Thomas
