 | 1825 - 840 pagine
...each side under it, which appearing on each side his face, his eyes naturally looking tierce VOL. I. 7 and wild, made him altogether such a figure, that...suitable to it ; we shall relate two or three more of his extravagancies, by which it will appear, to what a pitch of wickedness human nature may arrive, if... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 874 pagine
...like bandaliers, and stuck lighted matches under his hat, which, appearing on each side of his face, made him altogether such a figure that imagination...idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.' Yet only a few years ago just such a figure might have been encountered in the public streets on any... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1876 - 636 pagine
...reason of the success of the rovers in close fighting. To add terror to his appearance, Blackboard "stuck lighted Matches under his Hat, which, appearing...Idea of a Fury from Hell to look more frightful." He was a frolicsome fellow, this Captain Teach, in his grim way. One day, being at sea, and a little... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1891 - 416 pagine
...eyes. He was accustomed to twist it with ribbons, in small tails, after the manner of our Ramillie wigs, and turn them about his ears. In time of action...idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful." It is only just to record of Captain Teach that he died fighting like a very Paladin against the minions... | |
 | 1887 - 1008 pagine
...bandoleers; he stuck lighted matches under his hat, which, appearing on each side of his face, and his eyes naturally looking fierce and wild, made him...idea of a Fury from hell to look more frightful." The night before the day of the action in which he was killed he sat up drink1ing with some congenial... | |
 | 1890 - 660 pagine
...his eyes naturally looking fierce and wild, made him altogether such a figure that, says Johnson, " imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful." He was a Bristol man by birth, had been to sea all his life from an early age, and had sailed some... | |
 | 1876 - 588 pagine
...stuck lighted Matches under his Hat, which, appearing on each side of his face, his eyes 7iaturally looking fierce and wild, made him altogether such...idea of a Fury from Hell to look more frightful.'' He was a frolicsome fellow, this Captain Teach, in his grim way. One day, being at sea, and a little... | |
 | Amos Kidder Fiske - 1899 - 516 pagine
...that has appeared there a long time." This beard, quoth the quaint writer of the description, was " of an extravagant length ; as to breadth it came up...idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful." Stories of his reckless bravery and wild brutality and debauchery are as picturesque and perhaps as... | |
 | Charles McClellan Stevens - 1899 - 272 pagine
...light under the rim of his hat, making him present such a figure that, as his historian says, "the imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful." In the court records of Virginia his name appears as Edward Thatch, although his family name in Bristol,... | |
 | 1902 - 1236 pagine
...lighted matches under his hat, which appearing on each side of his face, and his eyes looking naturally fierce and wild, made him altogether such a figure...an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful. No wonder that his apparition terrified America : no wonder that his success did not equal his wickedness.... | |
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In time of action, he wore a sling over his shoulders with three brace of pistols hanging in holsters like bandaliers, and stuck lighted matches under his hat, which, appearing on each side of his face, his eyes naturally looking fierce and wild, made... 
