galley-slave

He seemed to dominate his Welshmen like a galley-slave skipper; any opponent to him, by definition, was a miserable specimen.

Madcap Wilf Wooller created my Glamorgan angst | Frank Keating 2011

Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required.

Les Miserables 2008

Their business was to go at night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at night.

Les Miserables 2008

He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an honest family; he had withstood this temptation.

Les Miserables 2008

Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the galley-slave.

Les Miserables 2008

Respect for a galley-slave — is that a possible thing?

Les Miserables 2008

I had become a galley-slave of pleasure, and must accomplish my destiny of suicide.

The Magic Skin 2007

“Every inch, sir, from Cabo San Francisco to Lima; more is my sorrow, for I was a galley-slave there for two years and more.”

Westward Ho! 2007

Here is a galley-slave in chains, who wants a letter written to a friend.

Pictures from Italy 2007

For you, this blow ought to be like the brand on the shoulder of a galley-slave, which flings him forever into a life of systematic opposition to society.

A Marriage Contract 2007