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Updated: May 7, 2025

Moreover, on returning to New Amsterdam, he paraded up and down the streets with a crew of hard swearers at his heels sturdy bottle companions, whom he gorged and fattened, and who were ready to bolster him through all the courts of justice heroes of his own kidney, fierce-whiskered, broad-shouldered, colbrand-looking swaggerers not one of whom but looked as though he could eat up an ox, and pick his teeth with the horns.

Washington Irving - Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete