gally
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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.
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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
The poope or sterne of his gally was gilded both within and without, and vnder his feet, and where he sate was all couered with very rich Tapistry.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt
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
So that in short time, this gally was ready trimmed vp.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Richard Hakluyt
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 Thomas Hardy
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
But he was frightened, or "gallied," as they call it; and noon came, and the boat was still chasing him.
From Omoo by Herman Melville
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
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