galiots

Down-stream slowly drifted a long string of galiots piled with crimson cheeses.

The Paper Windmill 1996

So we come to quaint Holland, where we see windmills, _ponts-levis_, canals, galiots, houses with gable-ends to the streets and little mirrors outside the windows, slanted so as to show the frows inside what is going on.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

As one string of my own ancestors was of Batavian origin, I may be permitted to say that my new friend was of the Dutch type, like the Amsterdam galiots, broad in the beam, capacious in the hold, and calculated to carry a heavy cargo rather than to make fast time.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

They told us there were two smacks or galiots lying ready, and would leave on Monday, for which we prepared ourselves.

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898

The inhabitants of Soller had risen in arms against Alaró and Buñola on learning from a boat which had come over from Iviza that a fleet of twenty-two Turkish galiots with many galleys was heading for their coast, threatening this the richest town of the island.

The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

He abides in a port; he goes down to the docks, and loiters among the galiots and brigantines, he hears the melancholy song of the chanty-men; he sees the chips flying under the shipwright's adze; he smells the pitch that smokes and bubbles in the caldron.

Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876

As one string of my own ancestors was of Batavian origin, I may be permitted to say that my new friend was of the Dutch type, like the Amsterdam galiots, broad in the beam, capacious in the hold, and calculated to carry a heavy cargo rather than to make fast time.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

As one string of my own ancestors was of Batavian origin, I may be permitted to say that my new friend was of the Dutch type, like the Amsterdam galiots, broad in the beam, capacious in the hold, and calculated to carry a heavy cargo rather than to make fast time.

Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

The galiot began to pitch, for the seas were getting up, while she heeled over as much as galiots ever do, they being sturdy craft, loving upright ways and sailing best before the wind.

Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Alexius, apprehensive of a second attack, had assiduously labored to restore the naval forces of the empire; and obtained from the republic of Venice an important succor of thirty-six transports, fourteen galleys, and nine galiots or ships of extra-ordinary strength and magnitude.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765