"Gally" Quotes from Famous Books
... almost as many Boxes and Gally-pots brought together, as would near upon furnish an Apothecaries shop: Then to work they go with smearing, anointing, chafing, infusing, wherewith (as they term it) the good woman is to be made ... — The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) • A. Marsh
... in at the clipping-time, and gien him a lounder wi' my pike-staff; he wad hae taen it for a bennison frae some o' the auld dead abbots. But it's best no to be rash; sticking disna gang by strength, but by the guiding o' the gally. I'se be upsides ... — The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott |