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Last night when Lionel so rashly leapt aboard the galley,
The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Because he had to take off his coat while he was working in the galley,
In the Days of Poor Richard Irving Bacheller 1904
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"Thet wer a mighty rum yarn the Dutchman spun jest now, I guess," observed Hiram, as soon as we had got on board and reached the galley,
The Island Treasure 1887
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At noon a bell rang, which was the signal for all hands to knock off work and get their dinner, the messman of each gang going to the galley,
The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific Harry Collingwood 1886
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On Linnhe's grey waters he crouched in his galley,
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"Now, Master Sammy," growled a deep voice from the adjoining galley,
The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables 1859
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Slowly, the priests, and the queen, and the virgin bound in the galley,
Andromeda and Other Poems Charles Kingsley 1847
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Onward it came from the southward, as bulky and black as a galley,
Andromeda and Other Poems Charles Kingsley 1847
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Tristan Vaz gave orders to Juan Pereyra in a galley,
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Joanna Kavenna's Inglorious counts, as does this book I just received as a galley,
Blog of a Bookslut 2009
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