"Ventosity" Quotes from Famous Books
... with all his outward valor and ventosity, was not exactly an officer to Peter Stuyvesant's taste, but he stood foremost in the army list of William the Testy, and it is probable the good Peter, who was conscientious in his dealings with all men, and had his military notions of precedence, ... — Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving |