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Meanings of galleys in English
Usage of galleys in English
1
Seven galleys were captured; but the Persians succeeded in saving the rest.
2
I am a convict; I have been nineteen years in the galleys.
3
He had certainly not expected to find war galleys in a cave.
4
There was in the galleys a quantity of food for the fleet.
5
Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged impassive.
6
On the seaward side, watchtowers and war galleys serve the same purpose.
7
He will be condemned; and a Boiscoran will go to the galleys.
8
He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an altar.
9
But I shall be sent to the galleys; to Toulon or Brest.
10
Of these the 44 galliots were almost as useful as the galleys.
11
He reminded me that I saved him from the galleys in 1848.
12
The prows swung seaward, and the galleys steered for the broad ocean.
13
Ben Hur from the galleys in the other chariot pitted against him.
14
The attack of Lincoln was followed by one of Moultrie, in galleys.
15
We passed warships as well, Volantene river galleys crammed with slave soldiers.
16
Accept my galleys with a joyful heart, and bend your oars westward.
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Galleys through the time
Galleys across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common