American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 170
Turkish captain, the latter makes a thrust at him with aboardmg 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 p J < P3 n w J y H H en fi( < J a :z; P3 p AMERICAN ART 141 remembered for this act of self-devotion,— since he cannot stop the blow with his ^voundedarms, stoops down and intercepts it with his head. The fight now goes on around the twoprostrate captains. The active and sinewy Turk, making…
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