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  • The broad stair that led up from the hall was likewise carpeted, and its massive balustrade had once been a galleon's rail.

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • The broad stair that led up from the hall was likewise carpeted, and its massive balustrade had once been a galleon's rail.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Most imagine a drowned galleon's treasure, but on a popular beach in St. John National Park, U.S.

    Beachfront Bonanza 2002

  • On the day of the galleon's departure, the old marquis led Antonio once more into the garden with the pillars and asked bluntly, 'Have you talked with my daughter about taking her to Mexico?'

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • ` I see pieces of a galleon's masts in that stockade.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • The broad stair that led up from the hall was likewise carpeted, and its massive balustrade had once been a galleon's rail.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • The galleon's long sweeps scraped the sides of the smaller vessel as they folded, like the legs of some water insect, to enable the grappling irons to be flung out.

    The Sailor On The Seas of Fate Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1976

  • Elric watched as part of the rail was drawn back to allow a gangplank, studded with golden nails to give firmer footing, to be lowered from the galleon's deck to theirs.

    The Sailor On The Seas of Fate Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1976

  • There were two decks, one like a galleon's deck, and the other like a galley, each with a big gun on either side.

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

  • Yozi on his galleon's prow, and leered with his eyes upon the city, so that the music stopped and the dancing ceased, and all looked out to sea at the strange shapes of the Yozis beneath their silver sails.

    Time and the Gods Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

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