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

The gally had seuen pieces of brasse in her prowe, small and great, she had thirty bankes or oares on either side, and at euery banke or oare seuen men to rowe.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Hakluyt, Richard

Lord zur! an why d'ye bring en here     To gally âll tha people?

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by Jennings, James

Pd for a gally slabs seate for yeparson 00 01 00 1623.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

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