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  • I'll celebrate when those gallies are in my grubby little hands.

    Rocks in the River 2006

  • Mumbai is famous for it's kulfiwalas or kulfi vendors who are sighted at street corners, beach sides or khau-gallies.

    Kesar Malai Kulfi Jyothsna 2008

  • Mumbai is famous for it's kulfiwalas or kulfi vendors who are sighted at street corners, beach sides or khau-gallies.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Jyothsna 2008

  • Chris says: nowar … not to mention a bucket of steaming hot tar, and a bag full of fluffy white feathers for before the reach the gallies …. bringing new meaning to choking the chicken

    Think Progress » Durbin: Don’t Be Surprised If “The Chalabi Motorcade Speeds Up When They Pass the Department of Justice” 2005

  • I've been going over the gallies for the paperback edition of SWORD OF THE DECEIVER.

    Galley Slave sazettel 2007

  • The king of Sardinia is so sensible of their inutility, that he intends to let his gallies rot; and, in lieu of them, has purchased two large frigates in England, one of fifty, and another of thirty guns, which are now in the harbour of Ville

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • In order to secure the harbour still more effectually, Emanuel Philibert, duke of Savoy, built the fort in the beginning of the last century, together with the mole where the gallies are moored.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • In summer, the reflexion of the sun from the rocks must make it intolerably hot; for even at this time of the year, I walked myself into a profuse sweat, by going about a quarter of a mile to see the gallies.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • He had been, many years ago, concerned in fraudulent practices, as a merchant, in France; and being convicted of some of them, was sent to the gallies, from whence he was delivered by the interest of the late duke of Ormond, to whom he had recommended himself in letter, as his name-sake and relation —

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • Notwithstanding, moved by the setled constancy of his plighted Love, and the speeches delivered to him by the messenger from the Princesse: to shew himselfe a man endued with courage, he departed thence unto Messina, where he made ready two speedy gallies, and fitting them with men of valiant disposition, set away to Sardignia, as making full account, that the Ship which carried the Princesse, must come along that Coast.

    The Decameron 2004

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