Galleons

For me this keen windy sea is thick with phantom sails: ... the high-beaked galleys of the Conqueror, the silken wings of the White Ship, Henry's fleet carrying victorious armies into France, Drake's and Raleigh's prows, galleons from the East, certain small sailing craft going swiftly and furtively by dusk, carrying fugitive monarchs – the myriad wings of a nation of sea-birds, spread for pleasure or for prey .... ❋ Unknown (1891)

The filibusters finally degenerated into pirates and robbers, and the treasure ships ( "galleons") of Spain, and the towns upon her American coasts, were the victims of their depredations. ❋ Robert A. Wilson (N/A)

The former was usually called the galeones (_anglice_ "galleons"), was commanded by a "general," and sailed from Spain earlier in the year, between January and March. ❋ Clarence Henry Haring (1922)

Several vessels, called "galleons," laden with the precious metals, and with merchandise of other kinds, are every year sent, from this port, to ❋ William Bingley (1798)

To the left gleamed a wide bay full of great galleons. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

Of course, after the oil runs out we will have to do something like genetically engineer raptors to be able to carry bombs and increase production of galleons so we can transport our troops and support them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These warehouses themselves were former galleons, overturned on land. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

The idea of spending money to move the statue has some Muscovites just as horrified as they are at its mystifying symbols - flags, galleons, scrolls, robes tossed here and there - and its site on a plinth in the river, where it looks like a shipwreck caught at low tide. ❋ Kathy Lally (2010)

Although we've never met, and you probably made more galleons and knuts last week than I expect to see in the next 10 years, you've always seemed approachable and honest, not the kind to stand on ceremony. ❋ Naomi Alderman (2010)

"A boy left school and became a midshipman, and in a few weeks was cruising after Spanish galleons or locking yard-arms with a French privateer, or — lots of things." ❋ Unknown (2010)

What red-blooded boy would not have been stirred by Sir Richard Grenville on the "Revenge" in 1591 taking on the entire Spanish fleet of 53 galleons off Flores in the Azores. ❋ Eric Margolis (2010)

Even Harry Potter is rolling in wizard galleons, although he occasionally has the grace to be embarrassed about it. ❋ Austin Grossman (2011)