o'angel

Updated: June 23, 2025

Pierre had diverted his mind from the woman who, at Fort O'Angel, was even now calling heaven and earth to witness that "Tim Macavoy was her Macavoy and no other, an' she'd find him the divil and darlin', wid an arm like Broin Borhoime, an' a chest you could build a house on if she walked till Doomsday!"

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"

But first he made Macavoy from a lovely bully, a bulk of good-natured brag, into a Hercules of fight; for, having made him insult and be insulted by near a score of men at Fort O'Angel, he also made him fight them by twos, threes, and fours, all on a summer's evening, and send them away broken. Macavoy would have hesitated to go with Pierre, were it not that he feared a woman.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"

Macavoy's rich voice roared as of old, before his valour was questioned and maintained at Fort O'Angel.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v1

But take a sup o' this whisky, while you swear wid your hand on your chest, 'Amin' to the words o' Tim Macavoy." Beside Macavoy, Pierre, the notorious, was a child in height. Up to the time of the half-breed's coming the Irishman had been the most outstanding man at Fort O'Angel, and was sure of a good-natured homage, acknowledged by him with a jovial tyranny. Pierre put a flea in his ear.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"