GML Lesson 24

2. The innkeeper was glad to help PH ______________ the Redcoats.
4. When Colonel Christian saw the smoke rising from Charlotte, he said it was Tarleton's ______________.
8. PH, Will Christian, Ben Harrison and John Tyler were the only ones left in the taproom.
10. PH let out a _____________ laugh when he heard what the price was on his head.
11. The British officer drew back from the homemade whiskey like it was ____________.
14. PH said that the ________________ of life in wartime was sometimes worse than death.
15. When the British traveled _____________ to Virginia, they behaved badly.
16. The officer's _______________ wouldn't let him taste the homebrew, but his enlisted men wanted some!
17. The junior officer looked _______________ when he had to admit that most of the regiment had desserted.
19. PH said that the Redcoats would not need any _______________ to burn the inn to the ground.

1. The British had no ________________, otherwise they would have been able to compromise and avoid the war.
3. When PH started quoting Cicero, Christian told him to save his _____________ for later.
4. I won't ______________ like a rabbit run by dogs, PH said.
5. PH moved about _________________ trying to drum up volunteers and supplies for the army.
6. The Lobsterback's farewell was the ____________ing nod of an aristocrat to his inferiors.
7. PH admitted that he found a certain _____________ when matching wits with the enemy.
9. Will Christian certainly looked ______________ed after taking the remaining troops to warn the town.
12. The young, inexperienced militia would be better off learning to ____________ Latin verbs, Will Christian said.
13. "I'd be ______________ if you'd loan me your pipe," PH said.
18. PH told the innkeeper that the British had the manners of ____________ when traveling abroad.