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Example sentences for "gally"

Lexicographically close words:
gallowglasses; gallows; galls; gallstones; galluses; galon; galoot; galoots; galop; galore
  1. There's an old Lawyer, Trim'd up like a Gally Foist, what would he do with her?

  2. This is the Devil thief, and if he take me, Woe be to my Gally gaskins.

  3. We went to Ando Tushma Dono with a present as the other, wanting a small looking glass and som sortes gally pots, with 2 maps of London and 88 (sic).

  4. Semi Dono, with others, came from the king to look on our gally pots, and carid som of them, with jugges and pottage dishes, to shew the king.

  5. And Skiamon Dono had 2 or 3 broaken gally pottes and 1 whole geven hym, he coming to fetch the other for the kyng.

  6. The kyng had dyvers sortes gally pots, posset pots, and jugges more sent hym this day, as also Semy Dono had 2 galle pots and 10 gren podingers.

  7. Here Gally might well be talking of the Clarendon kind of portrait.

  8. A man can be A Flatterer or A Blunt Man and still retain a private identity: this private identity Gally recognizes as important.

  9. The Augustan Reprint Society HENRY GALLY A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings from his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) With an Introduction by Alexander H.

  10. In admiring the Roger de Coverley sketches, Gally typifies the increasingly tolerant attitude of the Augustans toward eccentric behavior.

  11. Gally attributes to Theophrastus the spurious "Proem," in which Theophrastus, emphasizing his ethical purpose, announces his intention of following up his characters of vice with characters of virtue.

  12. Gally insists that the style of the character be plain and easy, "without any of those Points and Turns, which convey to the Mind nothing but a low and false Wit.

  13. Gally breaks sharply with earlier character-writers like Overbury who, he thinks, have departed from the Theophrastan method.

  14. Gally similarly held that a dramatic character and Theophrastan character differ only in the different Manner of representing the same Image.

  15. English writers before Gally had, of course, commented on the character.

  16. All this while our admirall kept the men ready houering in the gally and the boats.

  17. The Pandora's crew tried to gally you, didn't they?

  18. The church described long ago by Gally Knight and De Caumont is palpably later than his day.

  19. Both De Caumont and Gally Knight have a good deal to tell us about the church of Saint Cross, which it seems that some antiquaries had carried back to the days of Charles the Great.

  20. There was a time--it seems not so very long ago--when Gally Knight had to fight against people who believed that the present church was of Count Robert's own building.

  21. One bit of detail which Gally Knight saw may still be seen untouched.

  22. We have with us one book of Gally Knight's, but it is only the Norman book.

  23. Gally Knight himself erred more slightly in the same way.

  24. Gally Knight easily saw that there was nothing in the church which could be of Count Robert's time except the fine Romanesque doorway on the south side.

  25. But both Gally Knight and De Caumont saw some things at Saint Cross which are not to be seen now, and some things are to be seen now which they did not see.

  26. The canons let flie from both sides, and the gally is euen in the middest, and betweene them both.

  27. Now is this gally on flote, and out of the safetie of the roade: now haue the two Castles full power vpon the gally, now is there no remedy but to sinke: how can it be auoided?

  28. So that in short time, this gally was ready trimmed vp.

  29. Evidently, in her mind "Gally Polly" was a jovial sort of place, rather like Argyle Street on a Saturday night.

  30. Thence home, and by water by a gally down to Woolwich, and there a good while with Mr. Pett upon the new ship discoursing and learning of him.

  31. Russell, between two and three o'clock, and I and my boy Tom by water with a gally down to the Hope, it being a fine starry night.

  32. At these words, Major Gally, having a cane in his hands, struck Mr. Arpin across the face, and the latter drew a poignard from his pocket and stabbed Major Gally in the abdomen.

  33. The poope or sterne of his gally was gilded both within and without, and vnder his feet, and where he sate was all couered with very rich Tapistry.

  34. The gally had seuen pieces of brasse in her prowe, small and great, she had thirty bankes or oares on either side, and at euery banke or oare seuen men to rowe.

  35. Our men might walke in the gally fore and after, some of vs taried, and some went out againe.

  36. They will find a drawing of the entire front in Gally Knight's "Architecture of Italy.

  37. One of the upper stories is also in Gally Knight's plate represented as merely banded, and otherwise plain: it is, in reality, covered with as delicate inlaying as the rest.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bluff; brash; cheeky; contemptuous; crusty; derisive; disrespectful; flip; flippant; fresh; gratuitous; impertinent; impudent; nervy; pert; rude; sassy; saucy; smart