I heard the bullets tell upon the coach, and I heard the girls screaming lustily.

I feared they had been wounded, but you may be sure I had no leisure to learn the truth.

Three against two was terrible odds in the dark, where brute force and luck go for more than skill.

We fought desperately for a while, but in the end we succeeded in beating off the highwaymen.

When we had finished with the knaves who had attacked us, we quickly overtook our party.