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vogue la galère vog la ga-LUR phrase keep the galley rowing; to continue on; continue regardless of the consequences; damn the torpedoes 1858The Autocrat of the Breakfast TableCrac! from the sergent-de-ville's broad palm on the white shoulder! Now look! Vogue la galere!1894Under the Red Robe'Well, if I must I must?' I cried, making up my mind with seeming recklessness. 'Vogue la galere!'1902The 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.'1918The Firefly of FranceI was forming the habit of trusting to pure luck and vogue la galere!Labels: Henry Seton Merriman, Marion Polk Angellotti, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stanley Weyman
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