galley-slaves

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

Les Miserables 2008

The Republicans and the galley-slaves, — they form but one nose and one handkerchief.

Les Miserables 2008

On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the general-inchief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floreal, year IV., calls Buona – Parte, was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves was put in chains at Bicetre.

Les Miserables 2008

I will bet anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be no one there but returned convicts and released galley-slaves.

Les Miserables 2008

The Pelicans, and the liberated galley-slaves, joined the project at once; but the rest gave Amyas a stormy hour.

Westward Ho! 2007

I say nothing of Turks, galley-slaves, which are bought [2245] and sold like juments, or those

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Europe for many ages, and still doth to some, holding them as yet in slavish subjection, as never tyrannising Spaniards did by their poor Negroes, or Turks by their galley-slaves.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

You are tranquil, but you are not happy: it is the tranquillity of galley-slaves, who row in cadence and in silence.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Mad brewage set to work Their brains, no doubt, like galley-slaves the Turk Pits for his pastime, Christians against Jews.

The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

It is still a station for galley-slaves, and it has a considerable garrison, but we no longer hear of an abnormal fatality.

The Land of Midian 2003