Galleys

Examples

• They came in long black galleys, making little use of sails. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Its galleys could have penetrated up the rivers to the heart of Russia and outflanked every barbarian advance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You, with your practices of infamous foreign prisons and galleys would make it the money that impelled me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• We know things about Major Loder (he is no more a Major than I am my Lord the Marquis) which would send him to the galleys or worse. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Mediterranean, as we have noted (chapter xvii) is a sea for galleys and coasting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They also loaded their galleys with soldiers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He saw his galleys rammed by the sharp prows of other galleys; his fighting-men shot down; his ships boarded. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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