"He was seen fighting with the angry waves, overcoming them with
a strength and a courage which desperation alone can
give."--_Marco Viconti_, vol. i. chap. 5.

IV. A passage that has probably already occurred to the mind of the
reader, Mucklebackit mending the cable in which his son had been lost:

"'There is a curse either on me or on this auld black bitch of a
boat, that I have hauled up high and dry, and pitched and
clouted sae mony years, that she might drown my poor Steenie at
the end of them, an' be d----d to her!' And he flung his hammer
against the boat, as if she had been the intentional cause of
his misfortune"--_Antiquary_, vol. ii. chap. 13. Cadell, 1829.

V. "Giton præcipuè, _ex dolore in rabiem efferatus_, tollit
clamorem, me, utrâque manu impulsum, præcipitat super
lectum."--Petron. _Arb. Sat._ cap. 94.

The classical reader will at once recognise the force of the words
"rabiem," "efferatus," "præcipitat," in this passage. The expression
"utrâque manu" may not at first sight arrest his attention. It seems
always used to express the most intense eagerness; see

"Ijecit utramque laciniæ manum."--Pet. _Arb. Sat._ 14.

"Utrâque manu Deorum beneficia tractat."--Ib. 140.

"Upon which Menedemus, incensed at his insolence,
answered,--'Nothing is more necessary than the preservation of
Lucullus;' and thrust him back _with both hands_."--Plutarch,