The expected stand was not made by the Americans at Mr. Harrison's, for the British passed through his place unmolested and unmolesting. The destruction of the ship was, probably, the main object of the expedition.

She rudely talked over her opponent in the debate.

I took a course in xenoanatomy. We dissected a variety of human corpses.

Apodaca set fire to his ships […] At least, he would not let them fall into English hands. At three in the morning Port of Spain woke up, all aglare with the blaze six miles away to the north-west.