Tordenskiol [Tor´.den.skole], or the “Thunder-Shield.” So Peder Wessel, vice-admiral of Denmark (in the reign of Christian V.), was called. He was brought up as a tailor, and died in a duel.
From Denmark thunders Tordenskiol;
Let each to heaven commend his soul,
And fly.
Longfellow, King Christian [V.].
Torfe (Mr. George), provost of Orkney.--Sir W. Scott, The Pirate (time, William III.).
Tormes (Lazarillo de), by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (sixteenth century); a kind of Gil Blas, whose adventures and roguish tricks are the first of a very popular sort of novel called the Gusto Picaresco. Lesage has imitated it in his Gil Blas, and we have numberless imitations in our own language. (See Tyll Owlyglass.)
The ideal Yankee, in whom European prejudice has combined the attractive traits of a Gines de Passamonte, a Joseph Surface, a Lazarillo de Tormes, a Scapin, a Thersitês, and an Autolycus.--W. H. Hurlburt.
⁂ “Gines de Passamonte,” in Don Quixote, by Cervantes; “Joseph Surface,” in The School for Scandal, by Sheridan; “Scapin,” in Les Fourberies de Scapin, by Molière; “Thersitês,” in Homer’s Iliad, i.; “Autolycus,” in the Winter’s Tale, by Shakespeare.
Tormot, youngest son of Torquil, of the Oak (foster-father of Eachin M’Ian).--Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).