thunderbearer

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He rose like the thunderbearer of Jove, when he mounts on strong and untiring wings, to sport in fearless majesty over the troubled deep -- now sweeping in immense and rapid circles -- then suddenly arresting his grand career, and hovering aloft in tremulous and terrible suspense -- at one instant, plunged amid the foaming waves -- at the next, re-ascending on high, to play undaunted among the lightnings of heaven, or soar towards the sun.

Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry 1817