He seemed to dominate his Welshmen like a galley-slave skipper; any opponent to him, by definition, was a miserable specimen. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Their business was to go at night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at night. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the galley-slave. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an honest family; he had withstood this temptation. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Respect for a galley-slave — is that a possible thing? ❋ Unknown (2008)
I had become a galley-slave of pleasure, and must accomplish my destiny of suicide. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“Every inch, sir, from Cabo San Francisco to Lima; more is my sorrow, for I was a galley-slave there for two years and more.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Here is a galley-slave in chains, who wants a letter written to a friend. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It had about 270 oarsmen, who were professionals; the galley-slave was a Christian idea. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)
For you, this blow ought to be like the brand on the shoulder of a galley-slave, which flings him forever into a life of systematic opposition to society. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Forth he must go, in rheumatism or snow; a galley-slave bearing his galley-pots to quench the flames of fever, to succor mothers and young children in their hour of peril, and, as gently and soothingly as may be, to carry the hopeless patient over to the silent shore. ❋ Unknown (2006)
What is the difference between you and a galley-slave? ❋ Unknown (2006)
When Ferdinando had arrived a galley-slave in Calabria, he found himself coupled with a bandit, a brave fellow, who abhorred his chains, from all the combination of disgrace and misery they brought upon him. ❋ Unknown (2002)
French galley-slave and fell under the influence of John Calvin in Geneva ❋ Unknown (2000)
It was a ghastly party—no one else but poor Neddy Silverton, who looks like a galley-slave they used to talk of my making that poor boy unhappy! ❋ Edith Wharton (1987)
Nothing has been said, nothing can be said, in defence of this twentieth century reproduction of the unceasing toil of the galley-slave. ❋ Unknown (1966)
