I feared that he had, for he would not have let you be captured, had he been alive.
"I don't give up all hope for ourselves.

The Mexicans fight like heroes, but in the end we must win, in spite of their valor.

Even if we do not take the town by storm, which I don't think we ever should do, if it were provisioned, we shall take it by hunger.

They must be well-nigh starving now.

In another month there will not be a soul alive in the city.
"You do not think there is any chance of our making our escape ?" "Not unless wings could sprout out from our shoulders," Juan said, "and we could fly through the air.