The galician water-carriers were filling their barrels at the fountains, laughing and joking among themselves, strangers as they were in the land, happy by nature, and independent of all the plots and conspiracies which agitated the natives.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
Here, as in other parts of the world, the Hebrew people have a history full of vicissitudes, and are composed of various tribes, galician, Moldavian, Hungarian, and native Polish; but in their general characteristics they are identical, being universally wedded to filth and greed.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
On a high pillared bed set into the farther wall, an old galician woman, her head bound up in a red handkerchief, knelt all night and prayed aloud.
"The Dark Forest"
Hugh Walpole