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

But it's best no to be rash; sticking disna gang by strength, but by the guiding o' the gally.

From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir

“Excuse me,” I says to him, “but wasn’t you talkin’ to a young lady just now? and if it ain’t too gally, can I in-quire who she is?”

From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor

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

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