That ever-glorious, almost fatal fray,
When Little’s [Thomas Moore] leadless pistol met his eye,
And Bow Street myrmidons stood laughing by?
Ditto.
Tolme´tes (3 syl.), Foolhardiness personified in The Purple Island, fully described in canto viii. His companions were Arrogance, Brag, Carelessness, and Fear. (Greek, tolmêtês, “a foolhardy man.”)
Thus ran the rash Tolmetes, never viewing
The fearful fiends that duly him attended ...
Much would he boldly do, but much more boldly vaunt.
P. Fletcher, The Purple Island, viii. (1633).
Tom, “the Portugal dustman,” who joined the allied army against France in the war of the Spanish Succession.--Dr. Arbuthnot, History of John Bull (1712).