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galley slaves

n. (galley slave English)

Usage examples of "galley slaves".

The galley slaves I thought worth freeing, I freed, and found that many would stay with me, taking me for their captain.

There was a deck forward and a deck aft, with narrow decks along the bulwarks above the heads of the galley slaves.

Ramage noticed that the Calypso was not firing at the two galleys: obviously Aitken had thought about the galley slaves chained to the oars and decided to give them a chance.

She bade the talisman depict the King, and saw that he lay still sleeping on a plank bed in the foul quarters of the galley slaves.

The whips cracked belowdecks as drivers flogged the galley slaves on to greater efforts.

These were free men, though no doubt escaped galley slaves off other vessels, putting their compulsory education to use.

Three men with the doubtful aid of a dozen galley slaves could not hope to oppose them.

I was put in with the unransomed men, and we were all marched to Visping, to be sold to the Roknari corsair masters as galley slaves.