A History of the New York From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dut
A History of the New York From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dut
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
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At this very moment a cunning arquebusier, perched on the summit of a neighbouring mound, levelled his deadly instrument, and would have sent the gallant Stuyvesant a wailing ghost to haunt the Stygian shore— 4iad not the watchful Minerva, who had just stopped to tie up her garter, seen the great peril of her favourite chief, and despatched old Boreas with his bellows ; who, in the very nick of time, just as the match descended to the pan, gave such a lucky blast, as blew all the priming from t...he touch- hole ! Thus waged the horrid fight — wiien the stout Ri- singh, surveying the battle from the top of a little 132 CONFLICT BETWEEN RISINGH AND PETER. ravelin, perceived his faithful troops banged, beaten, and kicked by the invincible Peter. Language can- not describe the choler with which he was seized at the sight — he only stopped for a moment to disbur- then himself of five thousand anathemas ; and then drawing his immeasurable falchion, straddled down to the field of combat, with some such thundering strides as Jupiter is said by Hesiod to have taken when he strode down the spheres, to hurl his thun- derbolts at the Titans.
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