over-stooping

Updated: May 9, 2025

"I make no doubt, now, thou hast the history of the plunge into the canal, by over-stooping to see the Venetian beauty, at thy finger's ends?" "I do remember some such act of humid gallantry," returned Adelheid, laughing. "Did thy father tell thee, child, of the manner in which he bore me off in a noble rescue from a deadly charge of the Imperial cavalry?"

James Fenimore Cooper - The Headsman: The Abbaye des Vignerons