American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 172
urkish captain, the latter makes a thrust at him with aboarding pike. Decatur parries with his cutlass, but the blade breaks at the hilt. The Turkmakes another lunge, and this time wounds Decatur in the breast. The American wrenchesthe weapon from his antagonist, and they grapple and fall to the… … j < ,-1 Oh P3 n H J y H H en ri < J a •a E % & w AMERICAN ART 14! remembered for this act of self-devotion, — since he cannot stop the blow with his woundedarms, stoops down and intercepts it with his head. The fight now goes on around the twoprostrate captains. The active and sinewy…
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