0 a large sailing ship with three or four masts, used both in trade and war from the 15th to the 18th centuries
In the red light cast by her destroyer the galleon began to sink, and that so rapidly that her seamen threw themselves overboard.
New-modelled for superiority of sailing, the English ships had the same advantage over the galleons as the steam cruisers would have over the old three-deckers.
The flagship held out longer, but the soldiers did not wait for the Dutch to board, for some of them escaped from the galleon by swimming.
Then the direction of the wind forced the Spanish galleons northward, where most of them were destroyed by storms.
Whereupon the fishermen, suspecting nothing, pointed to them a galleon of great size riding at anchor not half a league distant.
We do not have a sunken galleon; we have a great reserve which is rotated.
I have the feeling continually in this debate that we are dealing with a good many important matters, but we are being swept away by the great galleon of government.
So let us not be too ruthless in our urban redevelopment, and let us remember that some people like the galleons on their front door, even though the architects disapprove.
