1 We embarked on board a galley of the country which was gilded like the great altar of St. Peter's at Rome.
2 Then without losing time, he and his companions went on board a galley, in order to search on the banks of the Propontis for his Cunegonde, however ugly she might have become.
3 The galley flew; they were already in the port.
4 Candide sent directly for two Jews and sold them some more diamonds, and then they all set out together in another galley to deliver Cunegonde from slavery.
5 I was chained to the very same galley and the same bench as the young Baron.
6 On board this galley there were four young men from Marseilles, five Neapolitan priests, and two monks from Corfu, who told us similar adventures happened daily.
7 The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he resisted the galley guards who seized him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 8 He sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 9 Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY 10 In the waters of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before the sound of the oars.
11 A four-oared galley hovering about in so unusual a way as to attract this notice was an ugly circumstance that I could not get rid of.
12 Meantime the galley, which was very skilfully handled, had crossed us, let us come up with her, and fallen alongside.
13 I felt as if her shadow were absolutely upon us, when the galley hailed us.
14 At the same moment, without giving any audible direction to his crew, he ran the galley abroad of us.
15 Still, in the same moment, I saw the prisoner start up, lean across his captor, and pull the cloak from the neck of the shrinking sitter in the galley.