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How to use galleys in a sentence

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The galleys led the way, and in their van rode three of the four great galliasses, thrashing the sea to foam with three hundred oars apiece.
The islands and sheltered bays provided ideal hiding places for the pirate galleys that plundered passing ships.
The Italian city-states kept squadrons of galleys and adapted carracks to defend their ports against the Ottoman Turks.
On 18 May 1565 130 galleys and 50 transports carrying 30,000 troops hove in sight of what is now Valetta.
When a book has been handed in, the manuscript is copy-edited, then it's typeset into something called unbound galleys.
Most of the damage was to the older ships, from galleys to galleons and frigates to pre-dreadnaught steamers.
With the arrival of the Norsemen wooden galleys and birlinns became the common transport and these stayed in use until the Jacobite rebellion.
The primary warships during this period progressed gradually from oared galleys to sailing vessels.
Gallus, notwithstanding, built not less than eighty biremes and triremes and galleys.
The ancient Egyptians were seafarers and Roman galleys, Phoenician ships and the fleet of the mighty Ottoman Empire plied these waters.
Ben-Hur is sentenced to the galleys, but saves the life of the admiral of the Roman fleet, Quintus Arrius, when their ship sinks in battle.
The Algerian Admiral Ochiali outmanoeuvring the Genoese Admiral Doria, swept in from seaward with his fleet of sixty galleys and thirty galliots.
The Turks numbered some 274 galleys and galliots with altogether 88,000 men.
Fleet B consisted of around 216 galleys, 56 galliots, and other smaller vessels.
Only the anastrophe-rated galleys have the maneuver capability to do so in limited space.
Sixth century monks in leather coracles knew this, so too did Vikings of the 9th and 10th centuries and Gaeilc-speaking descendants in galleys and birlinns.
In 1613 he tutored the children of the general of the French galleys and in 1617 became chaplain to the galley slaves.
These lights are located under aisle seats on one side of the coach, and overhead in the galleys, vestibules and washrooms.
Octavius has more and better galleys, but Vatinius has far better crews and soldiers.
The galleys with which the Greeks fought the Persians in classical times were not so different from those with which the Venetians fought the Ottomans 2,000 years later.
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The galleys lost their moorings at Bangui, where the earth and even the sea trembled fourteen times in one day.
Not a soul about the place, no copy, not a stickful of live matter on the galleys!
An embassage from the Doge of Venice had brightened the harbor with their galleys.
At the galleys, madame, nothing is so valuable as that reputation, not even money.
But it is by him and men like him, and not by the scourings of the galleys, that we can get to understand the spirit of the time.
There can be no doubt whatever that the predynastic boats were not seagoing galleys.
Their fleet consisted only of three galleys, one galliot, and a brigantine.
Later, she humanely intercedes with her son, the regent, to release from the galleys the Reformers who had been sent there.
Plenty of scoundrels have been sent to the galleys for less than that, but the courts won't concern themselves with a wife-beater.
The galleass's guns were high above the water, and the galleys dreaded their plunging fire.
Athens was strong in her navy, which comprized 300 galleys, while the Spartan strength lay in her land forces.
At an earlier period he would scarce have escaped without scourging, galleys and irremissible prison.
It would spread about the ship like fire and would be whispered over taffrails, in galleys, and in stokehole.
Those galleys which he had left he distributed to the questor, lieutenants, and officers of the cavalry.
A fleet of a thousand armed galleys, equipped and provisioned for two years.
The crews plied the oars driving the galleys so furiously that they seemed to fly.
The galleys joined the fleet at Bangui, which is located at the same cape.
Two galleys and a chebec were at anchor in the bay of which we speak.
A number of fishing-smacks and coasting boats, some retaining the fantastic fashion of ancient galleys, were discernible on the Red Sea.
For instance, being captured, tried, and sentenced to what they call 'the galleys,' in Ceuta.
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