"Galere" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... grows a peculiar kind of date which, we are told, an Egyptian army had left there. The waters of the pool touched Nefta, whose Kadi gave Tissot a description of a buried vessel which, from its shape, could be nothing but a "galere antique"—it was dismembered for fuel, and metal nails were found in ...
— Fountains In The Sand - Rambles Among The Oases Of Tunisia • Norman Douglas
... before the tour is done)—seemed to be enjoying, I say, the above-named Greek quotation at our expense. Here is the dismal log of Wednesday, 4th of September: —"All attempts at dining very fruitless. Basins in requisition. Wind hard ahead. Que diable allais-je faire dans cette galere? Writing or thinking impossible: so read 'Letters from the AEgean.'" These brief words give, I think, a complete idea of wretchedness, despair, remorse, and prostration of soul and body. Two days previously ...
— Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo • William Makepeace Thackeray |
