Sentence examples for galley slave from inspiring English sources
noun
A slave who rows in a galley.
I was galley slave,' says Garnett, laughing.
No one wants to feel like a galley slave.
The young man was sentenced to five years as a galley slave, but managed to escape punishment.
Sensing a PR coup, a galley slave from the Cornish constituency office of the Liberal Democrat frontbencher Julia Goldsworthy, pictured, decided to rally his colleagues.
During the Battle of Lepanto, the archbishop, now a galley slave, was likely on the Ottoman galley that rammed a ship captained by his brother.
"I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work," he said.
Nabokov dismissed this as whimsy: his characters were "galley slaves".
It is like rebadging galley slaves as "employed" and praising the productivity of shipping.
Just saw a struggle between University of Washington and the California galley slaves".
Indeed, even those who can afford galley slaves don't want them anymore.
Our tools were words, but words with single-celled purpose: we were the galley slaves of the Fact.
