Quick as lightning one report followed another, the bullets coming whistling by the galley where I was standing.
The ditty always winds up invariably, as in the old days at sea, with the self-same sharp twang of the chords of the banjo at the end of the last bar, that Sam used to give when sitting in the galley of the poor Denver City.
Of course, Hiram Bangs and Tom Bullover, who were smoking inside the galley at the time, laughed at the man for his folly; but he persisted in his statement, and went away at last quite huffed because they would not believe him.
Payo de Sousa, having seen some cattle feeding on the banks of a river, went up the stream in his galley in hopes of procuring some; but was opposed by the natives, and he and George Guedez were both slain.
The 13th, the fleet removed from the west to the east side of Diu, where they anchored two miles from the castle; but during this change of position, the cannon of the fortress sunk one galley and broke the main-yard of another.
He then stood over to the coast of Arabia, where one galley was cast away in a storm and most of her men lost.
The goods and the galley were saved, but the ship was totally lost.
While sailing towards Cincapura, the galley discovered a sail, and stuck by it till the fleet came up.
A half galley belonging to our fleet arrived at Diu on the 19th in bad condition.
On the 9th, a ship and galley which were laden with biscuit, powder, and other stores for the siege, struck on a sand bank while entering the harbour.
One galley preceded to clear the way and two others followed the large ship to defend her against the enemy.
The 2d of June we began to haul up the large galley, and next the half galley of the Pacha, all the rest being unrigged and drawn up successively.
The 23d we coasted along, still among shoals, the channel being so narrow that only one galley could pass at a time; and cast anchor at a place named Salta in 4 fathoms, having ran fifty miles.
When the season became fit for navigation, Perez set out with ten ships and a galley in quest of provisions.
Before anchoring, a Portuguese foist was seen coming out of the harbour, which was chased by a half galley all day, but made her escape in the night.
And yet--Whither will drift the Galley of Life when its rowers put their strength elsewhere?
However, it needed nothing less than a storm to keep them quiet: for on the second day a sea extinguished the galley fire, and until the gale abated no cooking could be done; so that the men had to put up with cold water and biscuit.
It very providentially happened that the door of the deck-house faced the forecastle within a few feet of where the remains of the galley stood.
This house was uninjured, though the galley was split up, and to starboard stood up in splinters like the stump of a tree struck by lightning.
I got a galley ready with a good deal of trouble, for there was not even bonote [5] to calk it, and I had to go in person among the houses of the Indians to find some.
Then the skipper went below to the galleyand prepared supper.
If I hadn't made one, and a bad one, I might not be stranded here in Judah's galley to-night.
From the open door of the galley lamplight streamed.
Hadn't you rather have your own galley on board a decent ship?
From the galley Judah's voice came, beginning the second verse of his song, "'Aloft!
I have to toil like a galley slave for a cent a day, and a cent's worth of this vegetable food, which seems to be all they have here, does not furnish me with enough strength for my labor.
The king has put me on the night shift in one of the royal coal mines and the soldiers make me work like a galley slave.
The fifth was the blackamoor who had been a galley slave.
On the Algerine all her crew were accounted for, not one surviving; while, in spite of our care, the losses amongst the galley slaves were fearful.
He embarked in a galley bound no farther than Cochin, where waited for him a ship, which was to go towards Malacca.
The viceroy immediately ordered a light galley for Nugnez; upon which he and three others of the Society embarking, together with four young men of the seminary, they set sail towards the vessel, to bear off the body of the saint.
The galley with its consorts made way to the chain at the entrance to the Golden Horn, where the rich stores, a thousand times richer now in the necessity which they relieved, were received amid the acclamations of the grateful Greeks.
At one moment the Byzantine galley was nearly overcome, having been caught in a group of Turkish boats, whose occupants climbed her sides, and did murderous work among the crew.
A Venetian galleytouches weekly at Durazzo, and sails through the Corinthian gulf.
The galley glided smoothly through the little gulf of AEgina, with its historic bays of Eleusis and Salamis.
Strong arms with a few strokes sent the tipsy kaiks from the galley through the rippling water to the landing.
But he'll never get me on thegalley benches again.
The chief attention was centred upon a splendid galley of Byzantium, whose deck was covered with silken awnings, beneath which a band of music floated sweet strains over the waters.
The galley glided swiftly by the "Seven Towers," which guard on Marmora the southern end of the enormous triple wall.
There were Spanish galleasses like floating castles, with huge turrets at stem and stern, rowed by hundreds of galley slaves.
Giustiniani ordered his galley alongside of that of the chamberlain, by whom he was received with distinguishing favors.
As the galley turned eastward into the Corinthian gulf there burst upon them a panorama of natural splendor combined with classic enchantment, such as no other spot on the earth presents.
Rounding the promontory, the west wind filled the sail; and, careening to the leeward, the galley danced toward the south through the light spray of the billows which sung beneath the prow like the strings of a zither.
We should have noted that, while he was just as fearful to be reminded of the galley and the tall dark ganger with the red, red mouth and the merciless thong, he also viewed with alarm the possibility of any distraction from his work.
He did not possess a megaphone so he had gone below and appropriated a section of stove-pipe from the galley range, formed a mouthpiece of cardboard and produced a makeshift that suited his purpose admirably.
He turned from them to toss a few strips of bacon into the grease with the eggs; then he peered into the coffee pot and set it on the back of the galley range to simmer, before facing his guests again.
The crew of a British cruiser stole him for a galley police when he was a kid, and he got civilized and learned to talk English.
She ordered Duncan MacGillechriost, a powerful handsome fellow, to take command of the galley in his father's absence, and in eloquent terms charged them all with the honour of her house and her own protection in her husband's absence.
Coming to an arm of the sea on the east side of Kyleakin called Loch na Beist, opposite Lochalsh, they sent Alexander MacGorrie forward with eighty men in a large galley to examine the coast in advance of the main body.
He therefore begged that his uncle should give him a galley or birlinn, and as many of the ablest and most determined youths in the country as should voluntarily follow him in his adventures for fame and fortune in a foreign land.
In the morning they set sail for Gairloch - the black galley was full of the Macleods.
Accompanied by these, he soon arrived at Torridon, where he found his thirty fellow adventurers and the galley awaiting him.
The men on board Macdonald's galley thought they had been driven on shore, and flocked to the fore part of the boat, striving to escape, thus capsizing and filling the birlinn.
Colbert replied, "Make as many galley slaves as you can.
Her attention was attracted to a galley which came coasting along, with measured strokes of the oar.
The galley anchored at the foot of the tower: a number of Moorish soldiers landed on the narrow beach, conducting several Christian prisoners.
This galley was wrecked not far from here on a shoal; all the men were saved, and were distributed among the other ships, which arrived at Therrenate without hindrance from the enemy.
The commodore's galley was hit more than thirty times, but only one Spanish soldier and seven galley-slaves were killed; the second galley lost two men, and the other vessel at a similar rate.
The Spaniards supplied [the Therrenate forts], and the other galley went on to Macazar with the envoy; the king promised to supply soon what we asked for.
He next entered the galley and other compartments occupied by the artificers.
In the enclosed you will not find any alteration from the original statement, fixed in the galley at the beginning of the season.
At this point was an allegorical display on a tapestry-covered scaffold of the arms of the city of Paris, a galley under sail with the four winds blowing with bursting cheeks upon it.
The floor of the galley was not at that time paved with brick or stone, as in later days, and now.
The roundship, dromond, or cargo boat, was often little more than two beams long, and therefore far too slow to compete with ships of the galley type.
The cook-room, or galley fire would not be lighted, and there would be no comforting food or drink, nothing but raw meat and biscuit, and a sup of sour beer.
They were strong enough to keep the seas in bad weather, yet they had enough of the galley build to enable them to sail fast when the oars were laid inboard.
Soon after the establishment of the Jolo garrison, the Sulus under Datu Ache attacked the soldiers in the quarry and killed a few Spaniards and captured 40 Chinese and Negroes (galley slaves).
During three days and nights the galley fire was never put out, nor was there any cessation of kneading and cooking, or of eating the boiled of one and the roast of another, so that they were eating day and night.
They looked at the ships, the people, and the women who had come out on the galley to see them, at whom they looked, and laughed at the sight.
The men seem to be hanging round that galley too much.
The mate went on deck and took charge, watching with great interest the movements of the passenger as she peered into the galley and hotly assailed the cook's method of washing up.
The girl was standing by the galley when they went on deck again, an object of curious and respectful admiration to the crew, who had come on board in the meantime.
The crew were down below, having their tea, when Billy, who had been to the galley for hot water, came down, white and scared.
She had, instead of a cabin, a deck-over hood forward that protected her engine andgalley from the spray.
At five o’clock Jed began to busy himself, in thegalley forward, with the preparation of such a meal as young appetites, sharpened by the sea air, demanded.
But be mighty careful what you do, Hank, with the galley fire,” urged the young skipper, seriously.
