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- noun Plural form of
galley .
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Examples
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They build ships which they call galleys, and make predatory attacks upon Edom and Ishmael [19] and the land of Greece as far as Sicily, and they bring back to Genoa spoils from all these places.
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela
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When, until I'm finished AAs, it doesn't even exist in galleys for ARCs yet.
Amazon listing, part 2 msagara 2009
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When, until I'm finished AAs, it doesn't even exist in galleys for ARCs yet.
msagara: Amazon listing, part 2 msagara 2009
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When the piece came out, a friend of The Atlantic's then-editor, Ellery Sedgwick, happened to see it in galleys at the British Weekly's offices.
Atlantic Lore 2007
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If you, dear authors, went to copy editing school, you would then be able to proof your own work in galleys and thereby catch all the nasty mistakes that the editors let slide through.
Reviews in a word Roger Sutton 2007
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When the piece came out, a friend of The Atlantic's then-editor, Ellery Sedgwick, happened to see it in galleys at the British Weekly's offices.
Atlantic Lore 2007
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Ford makes a good case that (barring some actual errors) the revisions were made by Lewis in galleys, and were deliberate improvements, in some cases responses to observations by readers; and worth preserving.
More on Maugrim Richard Nokes 2005
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Ford makes a good case that (barring some actual errors) the revisions were made by Lewis in galleys, and were deliberate improvements, in some cases responses to observations by readers; and worth preserving.
Archive 2005-12-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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This auction includes the unproofed galleys from the never-published Transylvania Press edition, as well as the unproofed galley of the Terminal Frights edition - and the winner will receive an autographed copy of The Temptation of Blood (not yet published, but delivered upon publication) which completes the cycle.
GRANT AUCTION DRAWING TO A CLOSE FOR WEEK 1 but New David Niall Wilson stuff up deep_bluze 2004
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I gave the book in galleys to this wonderful young writer, maybe the second or third person to see it at that stage, and he read it and said to me, “It’s like Harold Bloom, but written by and for human beings.”
Reading and Writing 2006
chained_bear commented on the word galleys
In addition to four named ships listed as "belonging to the army" (British army) that were captured at Yorktown, also captured were "a considerable number of small sloops and schooners, and 12 or 15 galleys" as well as "private vessels."
This word was also used in the plural in one of my favorite exchanges in film history, from Ben-Hur: "Judah Ben-Hur! What are you doing here?!"
"You sent me to the galleys, the ship sank, and I saved the tribune."
October 29, 2007