gally-nippers

Updated: May 13, 2025

I get no sleep with these cursed gally-nippers and things; but, stay how many men have you got?" "In my company eighty; but my order is to take only fifty." "There again! I told you so; want me killed they want old Bios killed! Fifty men, when a thousand of the leather-skinned devils have been seen not ten miles off! Fifty men! great heavens! fifty men!

Mayne Reid - The Rifle Rangers