Do we say gallon or galleon

gallon 411 occurrences

The recipe for these is different from the gallon of gore and the ton of thunder which make up the other sort.

INGREDIENTS.1/4 lb. of salt to each gallon of water.

INGREDIENTS.Sufficient water to cover the flounders, salt in the proportion of 6 oz. to each gallon, a little vinegar.

262. INGREDIENTS.1 gurnet, 6 oz. of salt to each gallon of water.

INGREDIENTS.Sufficient water to cover the fish; 1/4 lb. of salt to each gallon of water.

INGREDIENTS.1/4 lb. of salt to each gallon of water.

lb. of salt to each gallon of water.

INGREDIENTS.1/4 lb. of salt to each gallon of water.

lb. of salt to each gallon of water.

INGREDIENTS.1/4 lb. of salt to each gallon of water; a little vinegar.

lb. salt to each gallon of water.

301. INGREDIENTS.6 oz. of salt to each gallon of water,sufficient water to cover the fish.

lb. of salt to each gallon of water.

lb. of salt to each gallon of water.

lb. salt to each gallon of water.

337. INGREDIENTS.6 oz. of salt to each gallon of water.

lb. of salt to each gallon of water.

per gallon.

What would be the consequence of the duty of three shillings a gallon, proposed by the noble lord, it is easy to judge.

"I give her 'bout four quarts and a half of kerosene for a gallon every time she sends her can to be filled, but bless you, she ain't any the wiser!

Lamps were burned with great freedom; not little vessels invented to give light, but such torches as one sees at the lighting up of a princely court-yard on the occasion of a fête, in which wicks are made by the pound, and unctuous matter is used by the gallon.

Don't think you can take a slight sip of the wine, sir, and there leave offno, sir, you don't leave off, you youngsters never do; you guzzle a gallon!

"How many quarts are there in a gallon?" "Four." Miss Nugent looked troubled.

A good tree will yield above a gallon of this sap in four-and-twenty hours, but during the year in which the sap is thus extracted, it bears no fruit.

The planter was to give her a quantity of cloth to the value of £80 currency, and two young slaves; he was also to give the grandmother, for her interest in the girl, one gallon of rum!

galleon 93 occurrences

A large Spanish galleon was coming directly toward the island, pursued by a vessel which from the first he surmised to be a pirate.

The Spanish galleon was being driven directly through the only gap in the reefs to the island.

The foremast of the galleon was cut through and fell, and the ship's rudder was shot away.

The Spaniards, evidently bewildered, lowered boats, abandoned the galleon and pulled toward a rocky promontory two miles to the south.

The tide began to rise and floated the galleon clear of the sand, and it drifted into the little bay not a mile from John's house.

John Stevens turned slowly about to retrace his steps homeward, half believing it was some terrible dream which had brought him from his bed into the pelting storm, when by the aid of a flash of lightning he saw the Spanish galleon, which had been again stranded within a hundred yards of the beach.

Some skulkers from the cannon-balls of the pirates might have sought safety in the hold of the galleon, and he would find them.

Morning dawned, and he saw the galleon with her head high in the air and her stern low in the sand and water.

It came suddenly, as an inspiration, that the galleon must be a Spanish treasure ship.

" For two years I lived with him, and then he got to be master under Don Garcia de Carravallas, captain of a Portuguese galleon, which was bound to Goa in the East Indies.

[Galleon trade.]

The richly laden Nao (Mexican galleon) acted in this way.

The reason of this premiun on silver was, that the Chinese bought up all the Spanish and Mexican dollars, in order to send them to China, where they are worth more than other dollars, being known from the voyage of the galleon thither in olden times, and being current in the inland provinces.

These should have been taken on board at Galleon's Reach, but the Resolution was drawing too much waterseventeen feet.

Even in the shadow of after events, those first two months at Miss Blake's ranch swam like a golden galleon through Sheila's memory.

How old, how Spanish, and how galleon the craft might really be, none could tellor would.

"I do think he might write from his ranch and acknowledge the money I sent him," she told herself now, neglecting the sand-dabs to stare through the galleon window at the floating seaweed on the tide-dark gold-green kelp, like lost laurel-wreaths torn from the brows of drowned divinities.

"My silver dollar here, which I ring upon Gruyère's table, and with which, had it not been for your amiable politeness, I should have paid for my frugal lunch, has haply been moulded in Cellini's dagger-hilts or crucifixes, or formed part of a pirate's booty from a scuttled galleon on the Spanish Main.

CARTER, FLORENCE D. The golden galleon.

The golden galleon.

The galleon's flight.

The illustrious Don Quixote to-day lives on the north coast of Australia where he has found the treasure of a sunken Spanish galleon.

(Already The Spirit of Man was disfigured by a long grey streak, and the green back of Galleon's Roads was splotched with stains.)

" He picked up my books, looked at Galleon's Roads and then Pride and Prejudice.

"Galleon's jolly good, but he's not simple enough.

Do we say   gallon   or  galleon