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Some were killed, others committed suicide on the burning barges, and the rest were forced to surrender like whipped curs.

In Charleston the streets echoed only to the sound of my own footsteps or the snarling of hungry curs.

I will not insult the poor fellows by thinking they could be such curs.

You have many enemies that know not / Why they are so, but, like to village curs, / Bark when their fellows do.