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vogue la galère
vog la ga-LUR
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keep the galley rowing; to continue on; continue regardless of the consequences; damn the torpedoes
1858Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Autocrat of the Breakfast TableCrac! from the sergent-de-ville's broad palm on the white shoulder! Now look! Vogue la galere!1894Stanley WeymanUnder the Red Robe'Well, if I must I must?' I cried, making up my mind with seeming recklessness. 'Vogue la galere!'1902Henry Seton MerrimanThe VulturesIt is only men who have a whole row of hearts on a shelf, and, when one is broken, they take down another, made, perhaps, of ambition, or sport, or the love of a different sort of woman—and, vogue la galere, they go on just as well as they did before.'1918Marion Polk AngellottiThe Firefly of FranceI was forming the habit of trusting to pure luck and vogue la galere!

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